Roflwaffle,
Again continued from the bottom up.
I’ve let this distributed grid go on long enough, you need to pick your battle here, are you going to generate only in good locales or are you truly going to distribute and generate everywhere including some really crappy sites. See links for graphic example of my next point.
Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United States
Now take those wind speeds from the calculations in post 78 and find your 42% sites and your 33% sites (8.4 and 5.8 m/s wind). Are they not geographically clustered? Does the bulk of the power fall in one time zone? Are there not great areas of the eastern portion of the country that are completely unsuitable?
Check out the seasonal variations:
Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United States
This was the same thing that I was trying to reflect in the Danish data, that was not a fluke.
Now lets look at solar:
America's Solar Energy Potential
Again it’s largely geographically clustered (again time zone issues) and again the N. East is totally piss poor. I don’t have an American link for seasonal variation but I think a Canadian one really illustrates it better anyway.
https://glfc.cfsnet.nfis.org/mapserv...illement&NEK=e
Yes the Ice storms are a result of T&D failure, natural disasters happen. There were people in Quebec that were without power for 40 days, most at least 10-20. My uncle who lives on the island of Montreal (big big city) was around 20 days. This happened because Hydro-Quebec generates far away from the consumption. And yes Hydro-Quebec does have a HVDC line in its system.
Again more to follow.