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Best news is that cost of these installations is now quite low: less than $1.5 per watt peak. What about capacity utilisation factor of newly installed turbines? Does it trend downwards? Which means, are we close to exhausting potential of wind? PS: It's not, it's actually trending a bit up. Which is explainable because average capacity of a turbine trends up -> the turbine is bigger and taller -> wind blows faster a…
Best news is that cost of these installations is now quite low: less than $1.5 per watt peak. What about capacity utilisation factor of newly installed turbines? Does it trend downwards? Which means, are we close to exhausting potential of wind? PS: It's not, it's actually trending a bit up. Which is explainable because average capacity of a turbine trends up -> the turbine is bigger and taller -> wind blows faster a…
Is there a plan to eliminate coal and gas as big elements in USA's eletricity production?
Is there a plan to eliminate coal and gas as big elements in USA's eletricity production?
Is there a plan to eliminate coal and gas as big elements in USA's eletricity production?
If it’s cloudy and an extended period of calm wind, it’s unacceptable for me to not have electricity, and neither is it for hospitals or nursing homes. We will always need some form of petro backup unless our queasiness with nuclear is solved.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/worlds-b...
Am I correct to assume that wind is a more indirect source of power than solar? In my mind, solar energy creates wind by heating up the surface of the earth, which then heats up the air above it, which then moves around to even out the temperature differences. Therefore I suspect that in the long run (10 years? 100 years?) solar energy will be more common than wind energy. Similar to how solid state drives are overta…
Both seem useful in different places. There are very windy locations that get very little sun, and very sunny locations that get very little wind.
Am I correct to assume that wind is a more indirect source of power than solar? In my mind, solar energy creates wind by heating up the surface of the earth, which then heats up the air above it, which then moves around to even out the temperature differences. Therefore I suspect that in the long run (10 years? 100 years?) solar energy will be more common than wind energy. Similar to how solid state drives are overta…
I had the luxury of working on software in support of wind turbines a few years back. I loved it. I was very proud of the work we were doing and the value we added to the space. I would love to continue working in the wind energy space if the opportunity arose again.
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If it’s cloudy and an extended period of calm wind, it’s unacceptable for me to not have electricity, and neither is it for hospitals or nursing homes. We will always need some form of petro backup unless our queasiness with nuclear is solved.
Liquid-air batteries. Big ones. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/worlds-b... https://highviewpower.com/