It's terrible at night when there's no wind and during the day when there's cloud cover and no wind. So you run the capital intensive parallel generators - and that's called running fully on renewable, is it?
Maybe you could look up the last date when there was no wind across the whole of the continental US at the same time?
>when there's cloud cover
One of the biggest myths about solar panels is that they do not work when it is cloudy. They still produce power under clouds - not as much as a sunny day, but a LOT more than you'd expect.
>So you run the capital intensive parallel generators - and that's called running fully on renewable, is it?
Renewable energy already is transported between countries to handle different levels of load / production (Germany already exports it to France pretty frequently when it's sunny in Germany).
I assume this would continue to handle the different levels of sun, wind and load in various locations both nationally, across state borders and internationally.
Who knows though, maybe one day the whole world will go dark and windless at the same time?
crdoconnor|11 years ago
Maybe you could look up the last date when there was no wind across the whole of the continental US at the same time?
>when there's cloud cover
One of the biggest myths about solar panels is that they do not work when it is cloudy. They still produce power under clouds - not as much as a sunny day, but a LOT more than you'd expect.
http://pureenergies.com/us/home-solar/solar-basics/solar-myt...
>So you run the capital intensive parallel generators - and that's called running fully on renewable, is it?
Renewable energy already is transported between countries to handle different levels of load / production (Germany already exports it to France pretty frequently when it's sunny in Germany).
I assume this would continue to handle the different levels of sun, wind and load in various locations both nationally, across state borders and internationally.
Who knows though, maybe one day the whole world will go dark and windless at the same time?