As I told Liz Truss this morning, some days you’re the pigeon and other days you’re the statue. Perhaps it’s her turn to be the pigeon today... One that gets eaten by a cat.
"We have secured 1500 square km of desert in Morocco and we are putting 10.5GW of solar and wind on that site, along with some battery storage. We are then running 4 HVDC cables back to the UK for 8% of the UK's electricity requirement." No big deal. https://t.co/xwGJXnIyG1
That's actually just about right. At 30 mpg of gas (where ethanol has 70% of the energy density of gas), an acre of corn for ethanol yields ~12,600 avg mi of driving. That same avg acre with solar would yield enough electricity to drive a typical EV ~1,182,000 mi. That’s 93x/acre
Hey #energytwitter, you may have heard a few months ago that @UTAustin released a glorious #study abt decabonizing #Texas. We provided #grid#modeling using #WISdom-P & wanted to share a thread on some details of our simulations. Full study is here: https://t.co/aikcIOkWG7