Well wind farms won’t help, if you need 100% reliability. Storage I figured was more expensive than nuclear after adding all the costs together, creating enough hydro for backup is extremely expensive as well.
You’re essentially building a hydro power plant, water storage, pumps, and wind turbine at that point.
The solution to reliability is to overbuild wind and solar, so that even suboptimal weather allows us to fully meet our essential needs.
Which is still cheaper than nuclear.
While an individual wind farm might occasionally see periods of windlessness, that lull doesn’t happen to all farms on a nation-sized grid simultaneously.
Well wind farms won’t help, if you need 100% reliability. Storage I figured was more expensive than nuclear after adding all the costs together, creating enough hydro for backup is extremely expensive as well.
You’re essentially building a hydro power plant, water storage, pumps, and wind turbine at that point.
The solution to reliability is to overbuild wind and solar, so that even suboptimal weather allows us to fully meet our essential needs.
Which is still cheaper than nuclear.
While an individual wind farm might occasionally see periods of windlessness, that lull doesn’t happen to all farms on a nation-sized grid simultaneously.