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You can combine solar with wind. And the good thing: wind is complementary to solar. So no need for solar overcapacity and massive energy storage.

https://freeingenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Graph-s...

Edit: this is exactly what your link is showing > Demonstrates that mixed wind–solar portfolios outperform single technologies.


no it's not fully complementary. And that's the main challenge. Countries without nuclear and hydro tackle this with gas/coal


What if they are shared?


FiiO is great to get the best of both worlds. Using IEMs with FiiO UTWS5.


By showing only your provided data it seems. But when looking at the share of primary energy consumption from renewable sources it looks totally different!

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/energy?tab=line&facet=n...


That metric doesn't answer the same question. It isn't saying 18% of their needs are being met by renewables.


If you look at the growth rate of renewables it should be pretty clear that coal will not play a major role in the foreseeable future. Why is it not saying 18% of the needs are being met by renewables? That's exactly what it does


This is not energy output (production, usage), it is that plus an adjustment for the in->out energy efficiency. It would only == production if all energy sources in the mix has the same factor.

Because fossil fuels have higher in/out losses this is number is larger than usage. This metric is generally used to track decarbonization.

Using the IEA number you can see the hydro+solar+wind production is about 9.5% of the total, not 18%.

ChatGPT or you favorite LLM can explain in greater detail, just send it the plot image and ask.


The adjusted graph is a better reflection of "meeting their needs" than raw primary energy, since more than half of fossil primary energy is lost as waste heat.


https://re-director.github.io/

I am selfhosting a few applications at home and found managing redirects always a little cumbersome. There are lots of SaaS solutions out there, but no FOSS selfhosting ones.

So I wrote one myself.

Felt good to publish and share something :)


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