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Old 12-12-2018, 05:26 PM   #4073 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
That's a pipe dream. It says to get 80% to 90% of energy from sources that stop working before dusk or stop working shortly after the sun sets.
Then all you need to make it work is an impossible amount of battery capacity that doesn't exist.
Are we lazy? Can't we use our brains to figure out a solution? I think you underestimate what the people who did this planning understand.

How is it that Orkney can produce MORE than 100% of the energy they need? They have a lot of darkness in Orkney.
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