The Netherlands and Greece were the top solar record setters, while wind power also hit new highs in May and June.
  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    yeah, intermittent power that recently led to grid collapse in spain. it’s not about how much power you make, it’s about how to distribute it efficiently.

    • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
      4·
      8 days ago

      US disinformation pigfuckers claimed it was due to intermittent power. No such conclusions were ever made, and there is no physical/tech challenge/impossibility to not have a stable grid with intermittent power.

      • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        the reason stated in the report was that base load failed to correct. it was a novel failure case, but very much related to a grid with intermittent power tacked on.

        of course there is no technical reason it wouldn’t work, but we are in the real world, where technical solutions are not implemented in a vacuum. the grid is yet to be completely retooled for intermittent wave-following sources, and accidents like this are how we figure out what not to do.

        also “us disinformation pigfuckers”? really? the us has a vendetta against spain now?

        • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
          3·
          8 days ago

          US administration does have a vendetta against renewables, and failure to buy US energy at extortion prices.

              • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
                1·
                8 days ago

                …but europe has never been a us gas or oil importer. that’s just not a market.

                • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
                  2·
                  8 days ago

                  Europe has regularly imported oil from US even as it gets most of it from US/Israel middle east allies that easily replaced Russian supplies. Upon submitting to the US’s proxy war on Russia through Ukraine, NG prices in EU spiked and it got 50% of its supplies in 2022 from US LNG. The US’s determination for climate destruction requires pigfuckers telling EU that renewables don’t work, and it should depend on US energy supplies instead.

                  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
                    1·
                    8 days ago

                    spain uses fossil fuels from lebanon. you’re talking about germany.

                    i’m sorry but the way you phrase yourself makes me uncomfortable. i don’t want to continue this.