>>13225858I gave it a look
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>>13225898 said
comparing efficiency like that is completely wrong and says absolutely nothing
area efficiency is using wrong assumptions, area covered by wind turbine is >99% usable as fields or they can be build in (ideally cold) deserts or at sea which are unusable for living - you're not losing any real estate
plus there are agrovoltaics that actually synergise and increase yields because they slow down excess evaporation, which in turn cools the panels and prolong the usage
8 year payback time is like a decade old number - it's more like 2-4 years now
DC needs to be converted to AC, sure, but DC can be directly stored in batteries
inefficiencies are really on the high-end estimate and I'm pretty sure you are adding up numbers that already contain the previous inefficiency
Li-ion isn't the best choice for grid storage, sodium ion or sodium sulphur or others are considerably less resource dependent and higher bulk and mass isn't an issue when they sit in a warehouse somewhere
recycling gets easier and economically viable at large scale, when the amount of waste is actually enough to justify running a facility for recycling them. Kinda like nobody commercially reprocesses spend fuel rods.
the thing about Puerto Rico isn't that 40% of panels were destroyed, but that 40% of panels weren't connected to house batteries, but into the grid without storage in-between for the house it was installed on, so when the grid failed, the panels were not able to power their homes until central power supply was restored again.
you mention how kids in Africa are being poisoned by chemicals leaching from panels. I ask you this:
Would you trust Somalia or Congo to keep and maintain nuclear powers plants safely?
>>13225943oh no
now he'll hack me and send me hundreds of pizzas I haven't ordered
