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Too Much Sun
« on: July 01, 2025, 06:54:14 am »
Too Much Sun
June 30, 2025
 
By Paul Homewood
 

https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/#
 
Saturday, the 28th June, was, you may recall, both sunny and windy.

Solar power peaked at 10.9GW at 1.00pm, while wind power was running at 12.4GW. Total electricity at that time was 32.3GW, including 2.51 GW, 0.90GW and 4.79GW from gas, bio and nuclear respectively.

All well and good, you might say!

But here is the rub. Ed Miliband is planning to triple offshore wind, double onshore wind and triple solar power capacity by 2030.

On a similarly sunny and windy day in June 2030 then, we can expect to see solar power hitting 33GW, and wind around 31GW. Even allowing for a small increase in demand, we will have twice the amount of electricity we need. Moreover, our nuclear plants will have to be switched off.

Currently NESO pay a handful of remote wind farms to switch off when bottlenecks in the grid cannot cope. But in 2030, this will be a nationwide problem.

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/too-much-sun/
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Re: Too Much Sun
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2025, 06:57:25 am »
If the atmosphere is so clean there aren't enough hygroscopic nuclei for water droplets to form around, the result will be "too much sun."  In other words, not enough dirt in the air, clouds won't form, and the skies will be too clear and hot.
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