Switzerland would need around 760 wind turbines to meet the government’s 2050 energy target. A lower number would do the job, a recent study has found – but only if they could be built on valuable farming land.
Switzerland would need around 760 wind turbines to meet the government’s 2050 energy target. A lower number would do the job, a recent study has found – but only if they could be built on valuable farming land.
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760? Sounds like a surprisingly low number doesnt it?
The turbines around me (Burgenland/Austria) are all in the middle of the best farming land, they need so little space, there’s no conflict.
Which would be stupid
Yes, and only about 9 or so nuclear reactors. But our energy discussion is performed on the emotional level, not on a practical level.
Why not build a wall of wind turbines at the borders? Since 62% say there’s too many migrants, this way we might scare them off.
Hopefully SMR nuclear energy is available before 2030
There has to be a better solution cause Wind Turbines are an eyesore.
Is there not good enough weather for solar panels?
This is stupid and will never happen. This is all just a giant grift to get government subsidies. Makes you angry.
Can‘t we just put solar panels on every roof top? There‘s plenty of space.
I always say that the problem is not getting more renewable energy. Even if we had 100% of our energy produced with solar/wind/hydric power it wouldn’t matter. Energy consumption per household have been increasing at a warning rate for the past 50 years….
We don’t need new renewable energy, we need to completely rethink our lifestyles..
Allways having problems with the app
Why are people so against nuclear energy, its like people want to willingly pay more for electricity… smh
Wind is garbage. Unpredictable, moving parts, requires a huge amount of concrete for the base, kills birds, makes noises, can’t work when there is a storm.
Solar, Water and even Atomic power is better.
FYI, the wind farm lobby in Switzerland is very active online pushing their “how great wind is” however if you ask them simple questions like “what benefits does wind have over solar” they can’t give you a good answer.
Did you know a water power plant can got from zero to 100 in mere seconds. For today’s complex power requirements it is ideal to store power in dams and use it when needed. However water dams do affect the surrounding eco system and they need to be very carefully built if at all. IMO, solar is still the best choice for generating power if you can’t wait 20-30 years for an AKW.
Wich company will build them?
It‘s a shame you can‘t farm around their enormous ground footprint
760 turbines for 7% of energy consumption? I think I vote for solar, a nuclear plant, and a couple of hydros.
So 29 per canton, that sounds … doable?
Or 40 km2 of solar panels, the surface of Lausanne and suburbs
Nuclear fission is by far our best option. How much longer does it take until people realize that?
It allows us to produce vast amounts of energy with a very small CO2 footprint.
I would also like Switzerland to invest more into the development of nuclear fusion.
Built in 2022: zero.
Just buy land in Italy /Germany / or France and import problem solved
Just build 1 nuclear plant instead
I contacted my municipal administration because I found a product made in Germany named SkyWind. It’s a small wind generator certified according to VDE-AR-N 4105:2018.
It would be the perfect supplement for my PV array. I didn’t even get an answer.
We talk a lot but things happen slow, even if your community is labeled “Energiestadt”.
Alternative solution = reduce the amount of energy needed
Less people = less winturbines.
how about some hamster wheels for illegal immigrants?
Study founded by WEF, remove the farmland because all we should eat by then are insects anyway
Anyone else wishing for going back to the nuclear option?
Or people could make more sane and conscious choices and stop the utterly imbecilic addictions to overconsume and overeverything really. Dispicable specie, disastrous to all life on Earth.
The future or nuclear is bright
Why not plaster every industrial building with solar, every (bigger, non private homes) parking space with a solar roof and use as many roofs for solar?
Less intrusive, zsing already built over space and deliveres where the consumation actually happens…
Any industrial building that hasn’t used 100% of their roof space (that is not used by other utilities needing sky access) for solar is a missed potential.
This seems like an empty threat that unless x happens then we will put windmills in the alps!
Just put them all where nobody goes. Glarus.
Does Glarus even exist?
Apart from everything else I think we actually want more power than the energy target 2050 calculates to make things easier on the government. But they really need to stop asking subsequent generations to take a massive hit to their wealth *while* implementing this energy transition so slowly that the majority of costs ALSO is probably pushed much more to later generations.
Funding and construction of all currently effective power plants (nuclear included IMO) should start at a large scale sooner rather than later.
Go for 4th Gen nuclear power plant or thorium powered plants when the technology is ready. Until then used the nuclear power plants we have and don’t make the mistake our northern neighbor did *facepalm*
“we will have no choice but to expand into the Alps”
Yes you do have another choice. Build another nuclear reactor in one of the existing sites (about 7 TWh per year) and save the Alps from destruction
i smell eminent domain around the corner under the excuse of better for all.
Switzerland currently produces and consumes about 60TWh/year of energy in the form of electricity.
Switzerland consumes a total of 60+180TWh of energy a year (electricity+gas/fuels)
To get close to the 2050 goals let’s suppose you convert 50% of the gas/fuels energy to electricity and that electricity is 300% more efficient than those dirty sources. That makes it a total of 180/2/3=30TWh that need to be added to the current production (90 in total).
The 2050 goal wants to get rid of nuclear power (~21TWh). Let’s pretend like this is possible (it’s not)
51TWh of extra energy need to be produced to cut our gas/oil consumtion on half.
pretending like 760 wind turbines are going to cut it is just gaslighting everyone… To just replace the 21TWh of nuclear you’d need at least 2500 turbines like the ones they’re going to install in [Mollendruz](https://www.energienaturelle.ch/le-projet/) or 7200 of those installed on top of Gotthard pass (project started in 2004 and ended in 2020!!!)