I work in research and development for the energy sector in Germany. The green energy agenda is about to fail here in Germany. The problem isn't so much, that we have about zero solar and wind right now (that happens at least for two weeks every winter), but because of the lockdown, the energy demand is very volatile. That demand has to be satisfied with coal- and gas-fired power plants. Essentially, we are spending about 40 Billion $ per year on additional costs for electricity, but the technology we get fails us miserably. To get to a completely renewable grid, we would need to expand the current green energy capacity at least seven-fold...
At the end of next year, our nuclear power plants will be shut down. That's gonna be a crap show.
I wrote a paper on this six years ago. They would need at least 8 times more solar and wind capacity as they had online at the time (before the closing of the last nuclear capacity) to have a chance of surviving. A heralded "expert" from California tried to argue with me that power lines running under oceans would solve any little problems they might have. And then the Tasmanian under sea power cable failed (for the first time) and China and every other world power scrambled to develop deep-diving militarized robots... and here we are.
Do you mean that, in his opinion, off-shore wind could solve the problem (thus the need for deep-sea power cables)?
There aren't enough companies willing to invest in wind off-shore wind parks. And based on the data I've seen these wind parks which are supposed to run for 25 years have a significant failure rate between 12-16 years.
I work in research and development for the energy sector in Germany. The green energy agenda is about to fail here in Germany. The problem isn't so much, that we have about zero solar and wind right now (that happens at least for two weeks every winter), but because of the lockdown, the energy demand is very volatile. That demand has to be satisfied with coal- and gas-fired power plants. Essentially, we are spending about 40 Billion $ per year on additional costs for electricity, but the technology we get fails us miserably. To get to a completely renewable grid, we would need to expand the current green energy capacity at least seven-fold... At the end of next year, our nuclear power plants will be shut down. That's gonna be a crap show.
I wrote a paper on this six years ago. They would need at least 8 times more solar and wind capacity as they had online at the time (before the closing of the last nuclear capacity) to have a chance of surviving. A heralded "expert" from California tried to argue with me that power lines running under oceans would solve any little problems they might have. And then the Tasmanian under sea power cable failed (for the first time) and China and every other world power scrambled to develop deep-diving militarized robots... and here we are.
Do you mean that, in his opinion, off-shore wind could solve the problem (thus the need for deep-sea power cables)? There aren't enough companies willing to invest in wind off-shore wind parks. And based on the data I've seen these wind parks which are supposed to run for 25 years have a significant failure rate between 12-16 years.