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- Comment on Wind powers a record summer for renewable energy in Britain 1 week ago:
Yeah, but remember that data is live and it’s currently night time in the UK! (I think average solar is pretty liw in the UK though- something like 5%)
- Comment on Wind powers a record summer for renewable energy in Britain 1 week ago:
We need to do a lot more still, but the fact that the UKs energy generation is 20% of the CO2 emmisions per MW that it was just 10 years ago, despite a very conservative government, is pretty awesome.
(20% figure from this page which has sone cool data and visualisations on it:grid.iamkate.com data is all sourced from the UK’s National Energy Operator)
- Comment on Elements of Renewable Energy 1 week ago:
Well yes, but how is that any different from putting batteries in your wind farm?
- Comment on Elements of Renewable Energy 1 week ago:
This is a cool diagram, but I think it makes it look like you can’t combine stuff. Obviously solar and wind in a lot of cases just plugged straight into batteries for storage.
On the flippy floppy, hydropower can do both, but in completely different ways. If you build a dam, you can’t generate electricity, and if you build a turbine, you can’t store it.
I don’t know what my point overall is. I guess just that energy is complicated, and there probably isn’t a “one size fits all” fix.