German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the Western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

I thought renewables were cheaper than coal. How is this possible?

  • soviettaters@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, wind works fine in places like Texas (where I’m from) because there are thousands of square miles full of just turbines. The land is flat and expensive, essentially the opposite of Germany. Something kind of related that I found out while googling about this is that Texas is 1.9 times as large as Germany.

    • A2PKXG@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Isn’t cheap land good for anything that involves land use?

      We have the north sea, quite windy and shallow enough to build tall wind Mills.

      Currently the power rating is up to 10 MW and the blades are over 100m (300ft) long.