Good luck sitting in the dark freezing because of no electricity.Salt Lake City is going solar. Will cost about 2% more than present day energy costs. However, I am sure, by the time it gets fully online, it will be cheaper than fossil fuel costs.
Solar farm set to provide 80% of energy used by City of Salt Lake
“It’s so exciting and validating that this is not a fringe conversation anymore,” Mayor Erin Mendenhall said.www.sltrib.com
Yes, that's correct
Yes, in the arctic there are periods of no sun, as is true to for the antarctic
The word 'little' doesn't describe the amount of energy reaching the earth.
No, neither of us have IMO. I'm not making claims that aren't true but if you think I have then you'll have to produce something better than 'little'.
Read your Finland link... It is only feasible for about 4 months of the year... During SUMMER and only as an adjunct to other generating systems.
As is true for everywhere else on the face of the earth. Roughly speaking though because you're probably not suggesting the lower limb of the sun
There is but it's minimal
Yes, that's true at the arctic circle and above and that relates to where the imaginary line is drawn on the earth.
Between the lake effect snow squalls (from the Great Salt Lake) and the ice crystals that block the sun for three or four months of the year, its going to be a massive failure.. Those lake driven inversions last for months..
That's probably all true.
Yet you're still bitterly clinging to the idea of practical solar energy in the far north.
Do some homework on the practicability of solar in Finland and then get back to me. Particularly the question of the time required for payback.
My being able to master celestial navigation alone turns it into a kindergarten debate!
Does it take into account the decreasing efficiency of photovoltaics and the eventual need to replace them?
Most solar panels are guaranteed to have 80% or more of original output at 25 years. You do realize that coal and gas fired plants also have to have replacement after a number of years, and that they have to have constant maintenance in between. While the only maintenance the solar farm needs is occasional cleaning of the panels.
Coal and gas fired plants run at night.
There isn't any excess renewable energy. It never lives up to dataplate rating.
My goodness, you remain such a fool. First point, bird kill. Wind turbines are a very minor factor in human infrastructure that kills birds.
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Yup, I called it. You don't care about the birds killed by your spinning monuments to unicorn farts.My goodness, you remain such a fool. First point, bird kill. Wind turbines are a very minor factor in human infrastructure that kills birds.
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Second point, excess energy of wind farms and solar. This man explains it well. And when we have grid scale storage of whatever type, those idled mills or solar panels could be charging that storage;
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Originally Answered: Why do you sometime see many wind turbines not turning on a windy day?
The most common reason you see multiple turbines standing idle in a wind farm is curtailment. The utility will often ask the wind farm to turn off some of the machines when supply from all of their producers (gas, coal, hydro, wind and solar) is greater than demand.
This is one of the advantages of wind farms: their production is easily scalable. They can spin machines up or spin them down as necessary to meet demand, as long as the wind is blowing. So you’ll often see a wind farm that’s operating at a percentage of full capacity according to demand.
mehHow old are you? 13? In my lifetime, I have seen computers go from overgrown adding machines to devices you can hold in your hand, call to anywhere on Earth, and talk to, and get an answer. When I was a boy, we knew almost nothing about our solar system, now we have robots on the moon and Mars. We have flown by and taken pictures of all the planets and their moons. We are on the verge of having internet and communications anywhere on Earth via Space X's Starlink. These green technologies are being developed by the same people that gave us all of that and so much more. In the meantime, you are left standing beside the road, yelling "get a horse".
