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Re:Day ahead electricity prices for EU by ben_w on Sunday August 28, 2022 @03:35PM (#32631326)
> I'm a bit skeptical

1.740 × 10^17 W ≈ total power received by Earth from the Sun

1.91 × 10^13 ≈ average total power consumption of the human world in 2019

> If we are quick

I don't know about the growth of batteries other than "factories are being made as fast as they can be, and car companies are investing in mines now", the growth of PV is still approximately exponential. Also, if PV production switches from growth to fixed output at the end of this year, given how long the stuff lasts, it would end up in a steady state of about 8 TW nameplate capacity; given what the capacity factor is like, in practice that would be enough to make all electricity green but not enough to electrify everything else.

I'm not expecting the exponential to come to a sudden stop at the end of this year.

> most small succeed...

Do they, though? I think you're just not hearing about most of the small failures because they're boring.

Re:Day ahead electricity prices for EU by kkfx on Monday August 29, 2022 @04:03AM (#32635764)
The estimated total energy Sun push toward Earth have little to do with the potential fraction of p.v. we can really deploy. There are enormous constraints from water, too hot places, areas subject to floods, wildfires, ... without counting the real capacity to build and replace solar panels and batteries witch so far no one really know.

About projects, in any field, big, complex projects normally never get done well, smaller normally succeed. That's is. Since it's valid from IT to A&D why it should be different for something else?

Re:Day ahead electricity prices for EU by ben_w on Monday August 29, 2022 @08:54AM (#32637573)
Those things don't add up to a factor of ten thousand.

Off topic, but why do you consistently spell "which" as "witch"? I sympathise if it's ESL, but if so: the latter refers to pointy hats and pentagrams, not a determiner.

Re:Day ahead electricity prices for EU by kkfx on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @02:25PM (#32653448)
> Off topic, but why do you consistently spell "which" as "witch"?

Sorry, I'm Italian living in France, my English is far from good...