| ▲ | tfourb 2 hours ago | |
> Do you have an order of magnitude more land and water you're able to put wind generation on? Actually yes. We currently use less than 0.5% of our agricultural land for PV (and some agricultural use is technically possible below PV). We could of course dedicate 5% or even 10% of land use to PV, if we really needed to (which we don't). We also could still expand PV to large swathes of build-up area (car parks and the like). And Wind turbines actually don't need much space at all, the main issue is distance to settlements because of noise/shadow concerns. > And are you willing to base your life and economy on not having Dunkelflaute? I think there is an interesting discussion to be had. If we could i.e. half the cost of energy but have to live with drastically reducing energy consumption every few years for a couple of weeks in winter, would that be worth it? We actually did so in the first winter after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, because energy prices rose dramatically and people and businesses reacted accordingly. That was painful (and had no upside whatsoever), but I think if it didn't come completely by surprise but would be a designed part of the system, it might be worth it. | ||