Estonia’s inflation hit 25% year-on-year in August, energy prices to blame

Re:Estonia’s inflation hit 25% year-on-year in August, energ... by viraptor on Monday September 12, 2022 @07:26AM (#32808528)

That doesn't even pass the napkin math test. "An average onshore wind turbine with a capacity of 2.5–3 MW can produce more than 6 million kWh in a year" (https://www.ewea.org/wind-energy-basics/faq/) "Estonia is the total consumption of 8.80 billion kWh of electric energy per year". (https://www.worlddata.info/europe/estonia/energy-consumption...)

Are you saying there's no space in Estonia for ~1466 wind turbines? That's before we include offshore wind, solar, geothermal, nuclear, hydro, and storage... Basically, you're spreading FUD.

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Re:Estonia’s inflation hit 25% year-on-year in August, energ... by gadders on Monday September 12, 2022 @07:51AM (#32808771)

I was more thinking of more populated countries like the UK, but it's still a large part of the countryside.

>> That's before we include offshore wind, solar, geothermal, nuclear, hydro, and storage... Basically, you're spreading FUD.

Yeah, one of those is not like the other. Not sure how you slip nuclear in there given that Greens are against it. Storage isn't a solved problem either.

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Re:Estonia’s inflation hit 25% year-on-year in August, energ... by viraptor on Monday September 12, 2022 @08:28AM (#32809135)

They may be against it. They also have a very minor representation in the uk gov, so not that relevant. Storage is practically non-issue. We can dump the waste underground for thousands of years with almost no planning. (still a more healthy solution than what we do with other fuel now) The volume required is basically not worth talking about.

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Re:Estonia’s inflation hit 25% year-on-year in August, energ... by gadders on Monday September 12, 2022 @09:12AM (#32809615)

For storage I was talking about holding electricity generated by renewables, not parking nuclear waste.

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Re:Estonia’s inflation hit 25% year-on-year in August, energ... by nicoburns on Monday September 12, 2022 @08:06AM (#32808907)

> I was more thinking of more populated countries like the UK

The UK is solving that problem by putting most of the turbines in the sea. Seems to be working well so far.

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Re:Estonia’s inflation hit 25% year-on-year in August, energ... by gadders on Monday September 12, 2022 @09:12AM (#32809603)

Clearly not as energy prices have gone up due to a shortage of supply.

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Re:Estonia’s inflation hit 25% year-on-year in August, energ... by nicoburns on Monday September 12, 2022 @12:35PM (#32812801)

The amount of supply depends on amount of wind turbines built, not the amount we have space for. We have space for a lot more than we've built so far.

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