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> I don’t understand why wind solar is subject to absolutes devoid of probability - “what if the sun and wind stop simultaneously for 2 months?”

Something close to that happens almost every year in Europe. Last year there was nearly 3 weeks in winter where there was very little wind across the continent (<20% capacity production on all wind farms), and obviously little to no solar (high latitudes).



Spain isn't part of Europe? It's sunny in the winter.


90% of European solar farms are not in Spain.

Also, Spain only has a ~2 GW connection to France to sell their solar power to the rest of Europe.


You "just" need to get all of that energy north somehow...


Was Spain immune?


Another way to look at that is we only need to increase wind capacity by 5x to cover that event.




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