Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Mon, 9 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 09/12/2024 13:10, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2024-12-07 15:29, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Windmills and solar panels are useless for the same reason. - there is no storage able to meet the intermittency problem.

 I don't know why you are talking of that in this Linux group, but for your information, we have an island that goes with renewable energy for months, not touching the fueled generators.
 <https://www.endesa.com/es/proyectos/todos-los-proyectos/transicion-energetica/renovables/el-hierro-renovable>
<https://www.endesa.com/es/la-cara-e/energias-renovables/gorona-viento-renovable>
 

But it still touches the fuelled generators.
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And its a very small island, and it uses pumped storage because it has hills,
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Try that in Holland...
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And it isn't as green as you think. Dig deeper into the actual statistics
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"The longest it’s powered up the whole island is 25 consecutive days, before the back-up diesel engine had to step in"
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That is not 'for months'.

Let me add to that the the islands does not have a lot of heavy industry or data centers, and that the climate and nr of sun hours per year helps as well.
Impossible to scale up. I could argue that solar is great in the sahara, but that does not make it feasible at scale, so bad example.