Gregory's Server@mzedp To be fair, solar and wind run less often at full rated power, so one would have to divide their power by a factor of perhaps 4 or so... but that wouldn't make a big change to the graph.
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 @mzedp To be fair, solar and wind run less often at full rated power, so one would have to divide their power by a factor of perhaps 4 or so... but that wouldn't make a big change to the graph. 1 comment
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@casandro That's the one valid criticism of this graph - I thought of including a capacity-factor corrected peak power to address it, but decided to go for the simpler chart.
In any case, including a conservative capacity factor of 40% for wind and 15% for solar, we're already at above the level of nuclear - and, again, in less time, without big international accidents or nuclear waste.