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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Half the time I look at the wind turbines in the gorge, they aren't spinning. None of them.
I'll commit the same error as others who say perhaps RE storage will be viable in the future by saying that perhaps in 100 years we won't be storing nuclear "waste", but using it to fuel new generation reactors.
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I can't speak for your gorge. Mills in a gorge sounds stupid.
I can only see what's happening here, and that's almost continuous wind - spread it over a larger area, then you can drop 'almost'.
As luck would have it today was a day with low wind and during my evening walk it fell flat. The big wind mills stopped.
Half an hour later the wind had turned and the mills were turning again.
Utah has just committed to a 1000 MWh renewable energy storage buffer.
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