People don’t tend to live where it’s really windy and sunny all the time. So getting energy from those isolated places to big cities is a real issue… and then you have changing climate. Sometimes the wind just doesn’t blow or it rains. You can’t count on it for baseload.

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Posted by billjamin

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Member since Jun 2019

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Posted on 9/1/22 at 2:07 pm to ell_13

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People don’t tend to live where it’s really windy and sunny all the time.

Which is why you see wind and solar farms powering towns like Abilene, San Angelo, etc. There's a solid economic argument that then investment for cogen units, which are more location flexible, get placed near places like Houston.

This post was edited on 9/1/22 at 2:08 pm

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Posted by Cymry Teigr

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Posted on 9/1/22 at 3:33 pm to ell_13

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People don’t tend to live where it’s really windy and sunny all the time. So getting energy from those isolated places to big cities is a real issue… and then you have changing climate. Sometimes the wind just doesn’t blow or it rains. You can’t count on it for baseload.

But globally a large percentage of the population lives close to shorelines where they could take advantage of technology that now might be far more cost effective than it was even a decade ago: tidal generation. Tides are pretty consistent at any given location.

Not necessarily on a large scale like, La Rance, but on a micro generation basis similar to what is once again being pursued for the Thames Estuary: Port of London Authority and the Severn: CNBC.

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