Readit NewsFor gas turbines, n+1 is probably good enough for up to n=10, then n+2 and so on.
If one breaks down or is undergoing maintenance you have a spare.
Solar can’t work like this. Even if you build 2n solar capacity, you still have a not insignificant fraction of each day with no power.
Meanwhile a gas turbine can be running continuously for week to months between service intervals.
Just add batteries? Ok, but that’s no longer solar, and comes with not insignificant additional costs and maintenance etc.
Fair chance there are more of them.
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/yearly-world...
There are 4 confirmed fatalities in 2024 and 47 unprovoked bites.
Pretty regular.
That graph shows production, not capacity, nor installed capacity in each year.
Solar capacity and say nuclear / coal / gas / hydro / fuel oil capacity
Are different beasts.
When solar advocates bang on about adding X gigawatts of capacity, they’re being dishonest. What they really mean is they added X/4, because, obviously, it’s sunny only about 25% of the time throughout a year.
Adding batteries doesn’t change that. Still have to over build.
So let’s focus on the numbers that reflect actual production, so we can have an honest conversation.
Nuclear / coal / gas / hydro / fuel oil, even biomass have capacity factors typically about 80%, often about 90%.
Wind and solar are never going up ro those capacity factors, even with batteries (including pumped hydro).
China didn’t start adding much in the way of solar prior to about 2020, whereas they added lots of coal generation in the past 20 years.
A battery pack for a Model 3 is $10K. So even if the whole car is only worth $20K, it's still worth keeping on the road.
The Porsche Taycan battery pack is $70K. The moment you have any issue at all with it, the car will be considered totaled.
A modern house in Finland needs around 15-24kWh a year of heat energy if it's well insulated. On the higher end for big + northern houses, and less if you're smaller and further south.
Some get this energy by burning wood, others with heat pumps, and some with direct electricity.
That can’t possibly heat any home for an entire year.
1800 kWh is very little. We use around 12000 kWh and our neighbours' new house uses around 8000 kWh annually and most of that is heating. I'm not sure how many houses can hit 1800.
There’s probably at least some motivation to be adapted to know when chimpanzees are about.
Those guys are strong and notoriously violent. They don’t seem to mind being cruel either.
If you suspect chimpanzees are around, give them a wide birth.