MrPin Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 And weather and climate. Don't start that one Mr "Four Warning Points"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bootsox Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 it's a bit on the steep side pricewise!!! Rough calculation says that's about 55-60KW storage....way more than required. ..... Sorry I switched off after line 2, you have already committed two heinous crimes: Using an uppercase "K" in kW Muddling up power and storage: power is measured in kW, storage can be (and generally is) measured in kWh Without grasping at least the kWh bit, the rest of what you wrote is meaningless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 Get your units right. Marks can be deducted for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt Barlow Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 Wind is too unreliable to take anything other than a trivial share. Sometimes there is no wind. Solar is great in summer, rubbish in winter and doesn't work at night. Brilliant for countries where the majority of the load is daytime air-con. We have 5kW on the roof thanks to the government subsidy, wouldn't be worth it without the subsidy. Hydro is great if you have a mountain. Otherwise, all bit hard. Per above, tidal will get destroyed in short order. The answer is probably greater efficiency and more nukes. Lighting is a good example - we're now getting better LED lights than filaments, with 90% less consumption. Computers are similar. Problem is that we just get more of them. Would you call 11% trivial? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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