Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They're Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust
futurism.com
Solar energy will soon account for 10 percent of the world's energy generation, as nuclear power gets precipitously more expensive to build.
  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Wind Turbine technology has improved very marginally over the last 30 years

    What’s really changed is capacity of production (and scale - these turbines are truly collosal) combined with the rapidly rising retail cost of electricity.

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Marginally? Wind turbines are close to 15MW each now. 10 years ago it was more like 5-10MW. 30 years ago it was 3MW for an offshore turbine.

      You don’t think that’s significant progress? 5x the power. You don’t think that requires improvements in technology?

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        Wind turbines are close to 15MW each now. 10 years ago it was more like 5-10MW. 30 years ago it was 3MW for an offshore turbine.

        That’s almost entirely been due to size increases.

        The average new build rotor in the US is 133 meters, 5x the size of 90s era standard blades

        You don’t think that’s significant progress? 5x the power.

        Biggest Blades = More Energy