Re:In Europe, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels
by micwag on Thursday January 22, 2026 @04:20PM
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> In a calm cloudy winter week all renewables and battery storage are totally screwed.
Hydro doesn’t really care about a calm cloudy winter week and is the reason my state was 100% renewable last year. So it’s definitely not a problem for ALL renewables.
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Re:In Europe, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels
by TheSpiceIsLife on Thursday January 22, 2026 @10:40PM
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Effectively all renewables.
When was the last time a new dam and hydro electric power plant was built in your country?
Either all of the favourable geography has already been dammed, or good luck getting environmental approval.
Re:In Europe, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels
by lambdaone on Friday January 23, 2026 @03:50AM
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Alas, this is absolutely right. It's trivial to find places to put hydropower using global elevation data and GIS tools, but almost all of the good ones are already either being exploited, or in the process of being readied for use, or facing barriers such as the side-effect of destroying cities or heritage sites.