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by tcfhgj 1023 days ago
No, statistics say otherwise [0]

Poland is still part of the European electricity grid. It is not the European electricity grid

[0]: https://www.tga-fachplaner.de/meldungen/energiewende-kalte-d...
1 comments
RetroTechie 1023 days ago
Link covers a hypothetical 2045 scenario. Researchers have shown that... in future... could..

Parent refers to current situation I think?

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tcfhgj 1023 days ago
No, the link shows data related to weather without sun and wind for significant time periods ranging from 1995 to 2015.
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RetroTechie 1023 days ago
The researchers used past weather data (as you wrote), and looked at how that would work in a future (as I said) energy-mix scenario: a climate-neutral energy mix as projected for 2045.

So it definitely does not refer to the energy mix as currently installed.

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tcfhgj 1023 days ago
Where did I claim anything about the currently installed energy mix? I claimed that no wind and no sun happen very seldomly across Europe. The aspect of the 2045 scenario is irrelevant here.

Btw. it's important to note that there are more renewable sources besides wind and sun: heat from the earth, water (e.g. rivers, tides), bio gas, ...

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