Curiously not many in Southern Europe where energy is really expensive.
Matrix.
Nuclear power plants are better. Less visual polution, less space, stable output.
I want to see a bunch of Germans growing wind on farms. Like they reap empty fields, load air into their trucks, wipe the sweat off their brows, then haggle wind at the local market. Essentially like mimes, but without the silly makeup
Area representation of point data is difficult. I wished this map would have a higher resolution with smaller points. This maps could give the impression that a lot of area is used for wind farms and that there is little room for growth. However the area covered by wind farms is ~1.5% in Northern Germany and <1% for all of Germany with the target being 2% nationwide.
It may look like we only have a few, but “The Fântânele-Cogealac Wind Farm is the largest onshore wind farm in Romania and in Europe, with installed nameplate capacity of 600 MW from 240 General Electric 2.5xl wind turbines.” Which is pretty based
Question: if temperatures rise, isn’t it likely currents will shift, rendering luch of the current placelent suboptimal?
Not an argument against wind of course, just wondering.
Here in Hungary about 5-10 years ago it looked like we could have a huge turbine construction boom but the governement decided to support solar only and made a law in 2017 which says no commercial wind plant can be built within 12km of a settlement, which excludes literally all of the country.
Solar is booming massively however – installed capacity by end of 2020 reached 2000MW, 5 years ago it was mere 110MW.
Albania doesn’t even have 1.
Ridiculous!
There are at least 2 wind farms planned in Iceland, and there have been a few windmills in the Highlands since 2013.
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The plan for the blob off the coast of Hull is for it to quadruple it’s size.
Kind of fun to look at the related/relevant [% of national electricity](https://i.imgur.com/RGEZvg7.jpg) provided by wind power. ([Source](https://windeurope.org/intelligence-platform/product/wind-energy-in-europe-in-2020-trends-and-statistics/))
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Ireland too, surprisingly
Curiously not many in Southern Europe where energy is really expensive.
Matrix.
Nuclear power plants are better. Less visual polution, less space, stable output.
I want to see a bunch of Germans growing wind on farms. Like they reap empty fields, load air into their trucks, wipe the sweat off their brows, then haggle wind at the local market. Essentially like mimes, but without the silly makeup
Area representation of point data is difficult. I wished this map would have a higher resolution with smaller points. This maps could give the impression that a lot of area is used for wind farms and that there is little room for growth. However the area covered by wind farms is ~1.5% in Northern Germany and <1% for all of Germany with the target being 2% nationwide.
It may look like we only have a few, but “The Fântânele-Cogealac Wind Farm is the largest onshore wind farm in Romania and in Europe, with installed nameplate capacity of 600 MW from 240 General Electric 2.5xl wind turbines.” Which is pretty based
Question: if temperatures rise, isn’t it likely currents will shift, rendering luch of the current placelent suboptimal?
Not an argument against wind of course, just wondering.
Here in Hungary about 5-10 years ago it looked like we could have a huge turbine construction boom but the governement decided to support solar only and made a law in 2017 which says no commercial wind plant can be built within 12km of a settlement, which excludes literally all of the country.
Solar is booming massively however – installed capacity by end of 2020 reached 2000MW, 5 years ago it was mere 110MW.
Albania doesn’t even have 1.
Ridiculous!
There are at least 2 wind farms planned in Iceland, and there have been a few windmills in the Highlands since 2013.
That can’t be right for Ireland, we only have one offshore wind farm [off the coast of Arklow.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arklow_Bank_Wind_Park)
Map of Europe with part of Europe cut off :/
Come on Nordtirol, let the Winds flow trough you!
At least in my area there are plenty of turbines but they are not in one place, they are distributed here and there along the coast and inland.
Chad iceland soaking up that geothermal energy.