Wind Turbines

andy11 said:
BMW have pulled out of making their low emission electric cars in Britain because our low emission electricity is too expensive and have moved production to China which has cheap, coal fired electric.
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The mini line was appropriately named, it was tiny. Small volume production is poor value. Investing in a new large factory in the UK which is not an export hub would be an odd choice.

But again, China has just agreed a new 42GW wind farm. So it isn't wind turbines that are the issue here.
 
The data, from the country's National Energy Administration, indicate that just under 17 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity were installed in 2021. The extraordinary expansion means that China now operates almost half of the world's installed offshore wind, with 26 gigawatts of a total of 54 gigawatts worldwide.

They have spent more on renewables than the rest of the world all added together. Seen that in a couple of places so probably true.
 
denso13 said:
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Link yourself Denso!

Renewables and Net Zero are an absolute communist con. If we had a properly conservative PM one of his priorities would be to scrap all of it.

Debt Zero not Net Zero!
 
China makes their own turbines, of course.
Easy for them, they can just install as many as they like, where they like. Same with Solar.
 
andy11 said:
BMW have pulled out of making their low emission electric cars in Britain because our low emission electricity is too expensive and have moved production to China which has cheap, coal fired electric.
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Actually, a search reveals they have trebled their British output in the last year alone.
 
Another good day for UK windpower

Mostly between 10 and 15 GW

Solar not so good but hit 4GW around lunchtime.

Pumped hydro seems to be starting up each afternoon as solar drops.

I see Andy is spouting nonsense again.
 
Well thats the Rough gas storage facility back open today at a limited capacity
 
"...with the site able to meet just 1 per cent of demand on a cold day"


What a pity UK decided it didn't need a big gas storage capacity.
 
Totting up big (non polar) deserts you get to 20m sq km
a 1 x 1.6m panel can produce up to 335 Watts at the mo. Bad old ones were only 5.
At say 100 W per sq m from solar panels, that could be 20 00 000 000 000 000 watts, that's 2000 TW
Say you get 100TW due to darkth, dirtth etc

1 Watt = 1 J/sec

so.....

In 2007 the werld used 523,350 TJ of primary energy (WikiP)

523350 /( 3600 x 100) = an hour and a half.

So for one sunny morning or so per year you could harvest the sun, split water and pipe liquid hydrogen around the werld.
It would also reflect a bit of heat away.
Sorted.

Perhaps that nice Mr Xi or Mr Musk could knock out coils of PV material 12m wide (so they fit a 40ft container), 100m or whatever long, to unroll in the deserts.

SOmeone please check I'm not out by a factor of a million or gaxillion or something ...
 
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