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Manuel_D | karma 6732 | avg karma 2.89 · 2022-08-13 16:13:40

Wind absolutely does come in bursts. Peak production is as much as 4x as much as trough production. There's also hourly variation: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2015.02.25/main.png

tcfhgj | karma 756 | avg karma 1.39 · 2022-08-13 19:00:17

Think bigger: Entire continent

Manuel_D | karma 6732 | avg karma 2.89 · 2022-08-13 20:05:42

This is way harder than you think it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OpM_zKGE4o

tcfhgj | karma 756 | avg karma 1.39 · 2022-08-14 04:02:23

Entire world vs entire continent (already partly reality in Europe)

Manuel_D | karma 6732 | avg karma 2.89 · 2022-08-14 12:11:23

The lines are just a few hundred kilometers in that video. If your plan is to even out the intermittency of wind and solar with long distance transmission, then you'll need lines that are thousand and tens of thousands of kilometers long. Europe has an interconnected grid, but most of it is in AC lines that have unacceptably larger transmission losses.