If I cover up the solar panels it’ll produce zero energy all the time. That doesn’t make it a good point.
Energy generation must be economical for it to be adopted, my point is that for winter months it is harder to get energy from solar panels making them less economical. It’s possible they’re still good enough but I suspect that it actually means many places will need alternatives to meet energy production needs in the winter months.
And what you’re ignoring is that I wasn’t talking about economics, just technical feasibility. If someone wants to personally go fully off-grid and zero-emmissions and doesn’t care much about cost, then economics doesn’t really matter.
And what I proposed would actually work, since in that situation you still need to build out the electrical generation capacity to fulfill your needs year-round, not just during the summer.
At no point did I mention anything about applying this to grid scale, since at that point you’d be better off offsetting the seasonal variation with hydro or nuclear. I’m just pointing out neat quirks with solar power and you’re yelling at a strawman.
If I cover up the solar panels it’ll produce zero energy all the time. That doesn’t make it a good point.
Energy generation must be economical for it to be adopted, my point is that for winter months it is harder to get energy from solar panels making them less economical. It’s possible they’re still good enough but I suspect that it actually means many places will need alternatives to meet energy production needs in the winter months.
And what you’re ignoring is that I wasn’t talking about economics, just technical feasibility. If someone wants to personally go fully off-grid and zero-emmissions and doesn’t care much about cost, then economics doesn’t really matter.
And what I proposed would actually work, since in that situation you still need to build out the electrical generation capacity to fulfill your needs year-round, not just during the summer.
At no point did I mention anything about applying this to grid scale, since at that point you’d be better off offsetting the seasonal variation with hydro or nuclear. I’m just pointing out neat quirks with solar power and you’re yelling at a strawman.