Great article on wind and solar

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I have posted in the past that in real world application, stand alone solar requires 3 months of energy storage. This is based on information from the people installing the systems.
Here is a peer reviewed journal article coming to the same conclusion.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1076830/full

This works out to 5 times the entire US annual GDP. Needing replaced every 15 years.

[chuckChuck]

Renewables are already generating large amounts of electricity in many countries that contradicts the assumption that they can't be relied on to significantly reduce carbon emissions from fossil fuels.

About 80% of Canada's electricity is already from non emitting sources with renewable hydro, wind, solar, and nuclear.

Renewables are growing at a rapid pace in many parts the world because they are the lowest cost source of new generation capacity.

Storage will be part of the solution. Transalta recently cancelled plans for a large storage project, but Danny the gatekeeper put up road blocks to scare away more investment so that Alberta can burn more gas.

Danny and the UCP don't like competition from lower cost renewables. So she makes up bogus arguments that are dismissed by the Alberta Utilities Commission!


[url]https://calgaryherald.com/business/energy/alberta-commission-renewables-little-threat-agriculture-environment[/url]

Renewables pose little threat to agriculture, environment: report
The Alberta Utilities Commission found renewable power is much less of a threat to the province's farmland than other forms of energy development and urban spread.

[shtferbrains]

How about we replace the coal we are using with the wood pellets we send to Britain.
Science says it's a renewable and carbon neutral.
We already have the coal plant just change them over to a proven renewable energy source.
We could easily make our 2030 targets and Alberta Saskatchewan could be the cleanest places on earth.

How about it Chuck?
It's all ready to go!
Sound Science.

[littledoggie]

Sounds good! I have 600+ acres of dead and dying climax Boreal forest that could be used. Before it goes up in smoke preferably.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Renewables are already generating large amounts of electricity in many countries that contradicts the assumption that they can't be relied on to significantly reduce carbon emissions from fossil fuels.

About 80% of Canada's electricity is already from non emitting sources with renewable hydro, wind, solar, and nuclear.

Renewables are growing at a rapid pace in many parts the world because they are the lowest cost source of new generation capacity.

Storage will be part of the solution. Transalta recently cancelled plans for a large storage project, but Danny the gatekeeper put up road blocks to scare away more investment so that Alberta can burn more gas.

Danny and the UCP don't like competition from lower cost renewables. So she makes up bogus arguments that are dismissed by the Alberta Utilities Commission!


[url]https://calgaryherald.com/business/energy/alberta-commission-renewables-little-threat-agriculture-environment[/url]

Renewables pose little threat to agriculture, environment: report
The Alberta Utilities Commission found renewable power is much less of a threat to the province's farmland than other forms of energy development and urban spread.

Perhaps if you were to share the voices in your head with the rest of us, we would understand where these posts come from.

I shared information from a credible source about the amount of storage required for the renewable revolution.
And in response, you ramble on about Danny, Urban sprawl, farmland, natural gas, you repeat the words low cost twice, completely contradicting the information in the paper I posted. Then you managed to make one mention of storage has been part of the solution, again, contradicting the paper provided above.
The only explanation I can come up with for your unrelated responses is that you are responding to the demons in your head, and you are unable to differentiate between those voices and reality.

[fjlip]

Facts can screw with the voices in our heads...

[Hamloc]

I have posted in the past that in real world application, stand alone solar requires 3 months of energy storage. This is based on information from the people installing the systems.
Here is a peer reviewed journal article coming to the same conclusion.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1076830/full

This works out to 5 times the entire US annual GDP. Needing replaced every 15 years.

Looked over the research quickly. To look at it properly will take more time. Obviously judging by comments in the conclusion the authors are quite biased against fossil fuels. Regardless, they concluded as you stated you would need months of storage and the ability of that storage to store electricity for months at a time before it was used. Obviously looking at Chuck2’s response he didn’t even look at it, not surprised. Anyone that believes a grid supplied totally by wind and solar and storage would be practical and affordable is dreaming..

[shtferbrains]

You missed my question about converting all the coal plants to renewable wood pellets.
The science is proven and peer reviewed.
We ship them to Britain where they account for a significant amount of thier renewable generation.
We have smaller scale co- gen plants going here.
Hog fuel is trucked past here 7 days a week.

Wouldn't that meet our 2030 commitment and help solve that problem of our forrest being net carbon emitters?

Lots of idle coal plants to be converted.

The science is proven.
Solves all our problems.

Why haven't we already done this Chuck?

[chuckChuck]

Because Danny want to burn more gas and "save the farmland" and her petro buddies pristine views at their luxury weekend houses!

[shtferbrains]

So your all in on the coal conversions?

Would be no need for those dirty gas peakers to cover the slump in solar.