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buckle8017 2 days ago

Much of the developing world is close enough to the equator that solar and batteries just have to last a few days.

In most developed countries solar is seasonal.

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anonymars 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Solar is one type of renewable. The Nordics have done all right

https://www.nordicstatistics.org/news/the-5-large-nordic-cou...

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buckle8017 2 days ago | parent [-]

They have small populations and so many places to install dams they have their own words for it.

Nobody else can do that.

	▲	anonymars 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yet their neighbor Denmark has similar penetration of renewables. So what's the final destination of these goalposts then so we can just skip to the end?

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pfdietz 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Interestingly you don't want to be near the equator for the best solar resource, due to something called the "Intertropical Convergence Zone". This creates persistent storms and cloudiness in a band that waves up and down across the equator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertropical_Convergence_Zone

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lokar 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Peak efficiency is seasonal. Much of North America is perfectly suited for solar year round, at reduced efficiency.