youradhere@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking offwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square202fedilinkarrow-up1656arrow-down113cross-posted to: climate@slrpnk.netnews@beehaw.org
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minus-squareayyy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoYou’re spending too much time in theoryland. How do you over-provision for 10 feet of snow in a week of 0f/-10c? It’s not a hypothetical. Moving energy across long distances is absolutely critical to carbon-free energy.
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agouh, you clean the panels for one. Outside of that, you import external energy, or use other generation sources.
minus-squareayyy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoAnd at that point you need a power grid and at that point you may as well centralize the generation to utilize economies of scale.
You’re spending too much time in theoryland. How do you over-provision for 10 feet of snow in a week of 0f/-10c? It’s not a hypothetical. Moving energy across long distances is absolutely critical to carbon-free energy.
uh, you clean the panels for one. Outside of that, you import external energy, or use other generation sources.
And at that point you need a power grid and at that point you may as well centralize the generation to utilize economies of scale.