A Few Graphs Say It All for Weather-Dependent “Renewables”
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Ed Hoskins
A few graphs say it all for Wind and Solar power
This is the 10-year productivity record for European Weather-Dependent “Renewables”: that is the annual power output divided by the nominal installation rating of the Weather-Dependent “Renewables” installations over the last decade. The data is provided by EurObservER a “Weather-Dependent “Renewables” promoting organisation supported by the EU.
The productivity of Weather-Dependent “Renewables” is limited as they only gather intermittent and dilute sources of energy, Wind and Solar. As they are not capable of producing the major excess power needed by civilisation they are parasitic on all other power generation technologies.
Conventional power generation, Gas-firing, Coal or Nuclear technologies:
produce much more energy for use by civilisation than the energy they require to build and run. They have a high Energy Return on Energy Invested.<
run 24/7
can be turned on when needed to match demand
use small land areas
can be located close to centres of demand
their installations use limited materials
they can have substantial energy storage on site at low cost
are shown to be substantially cheaper for the power they produce, even at current elevated European Gas prices.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/05/a-few-graphs-say-it-all-for-weather-dependent-renewables-2/
