More wind energy was installed in 2020 than any other energy source

Post by dukeyukey » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 9:34 AM UTC

wumpus wrote: post #62

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I guess one solution is smart devices and processess that can be optimized to load whwn there is peak power. Some industrial processess, such as smelting, crushing, etc can be incentivized to do that. At domestic levels, its more difficult

One easy one is charging electric cars. If they can be plugged in both at work and at home, there's a huge opportunity to charge when there's excess production.

Post by sofixa » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 9:38 AM UTC

fuoqi wrote: post #110

sofixa wrote: post #86

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> Personally, I hope that hydro pumped storage in artificial underground cavities will become mainstream one day. That would have massive (environmental and financial) costs. https://youtu.be/JSgd-QhLHRI Is a great video discussing the practicality and finances involved in hydro pumped storage.

Have you missed the underground part? Ideally both reservoirs would be kept underground, thus minimizing environmental impact and water loss to an absolute minimum. I agree that such storage would require huge CapEx, but on the bright side OpEx will be relatively small. And no need to bother with recycling of megatonnes of batteries every decade. Also because stored energy is proportional to volume and height differe…

Post by afarrell » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 9:43 AM UTC

techpression wrote: post #87

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> There’s currently no way to recycle or reuse the blades and it’s a big problem that nobody seems to care about The wind power industry cares and is actively asking for political incentives to change this: https://windeurope.org/newsroom/press-releases/wind-industry...

The industry needs political incentives to even exist and now they want incentives to fix the problem the incentives created. Why don’t we just agree on state financed and owned wind power and be done with it instead of feeding the middlemen. And it begs the question, the waste was a known factor before even starting building turbines, why start asking for this now instead of twenty years ago. To me it feels very muc…

Post by ClumsyPilot » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 10:00 AM UTC

Katzmann1983 wrote: post #97

drumhead wrote: post #91

It's great......when the wind blows. In the UK we have about 15GW of installed wind generating capacity, but it's very rarely fully utilized. The variability means it's balanced out by other sources mostly gas powered Combined cycle turbines. During summer there have been weeks where wind and solar were negligible and gas was providing nearly 60% of the electricity generated. Nuclear is reliable, but we only have abo…

Sadly, the help is rather limited. All of Europe often shares the same environmental conditions. Energy storage is the only real solution.

Post by codetrotter » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 10:11 AM UTC

parineum wrote: post #102

wavegeek wrote: post #99

False and misleading. First, it only refers to the US, while the headline makes no such qualification. Second, this refers only to electricity generation, which is roughly 25% of US energy use, or 20% if you include energy embedded in imports, mostly fueled by fossil fuels in China. Third, this refers only to gros capacity. For those who have been asleep, the effective energy capacity is far lower for renewables than…

>First, it only refers to the US, while the headline makes no such qualification. The url gives you a good hint.