kravietz 🦇 on Nostr: npub1tz8dj…jpgny You are happily “applying 40% to wind” while completely ...

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You are happily “applying 40% to wind” while completely ignoring that it only works when averaged over the year (and it’s highly inflated, 40% is max for off-shore). For example, right now in Germany wind output is 23% and solar is stunning 2%, so the whole country runs on gas and coal:

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE

Countries don’t want to have electricity supply averaged over the year, they want 24/7 electricity, which is why you can’t directly compare dispatchable (nuclear) capacity with variable (wind, solar). Want a fair comparison, compare wind+storage or PV+storage. Where storage can be pumped hydro or batteries, but the capacity of both is rather miserable globally and of course you don’t display it in your graph :)