An Engineer

Black Swans and Greenwashing Solar and Wind

Winds are diurnal in places such as California where windfarms are placed in gaps in the coastal mountains in order to capture the winds generated by pressure differences between the ocean and interior as the dry interior warms and cools every day much faster than the does the air over the ocean. Many other regions such as Eastern Canada do not have a diurnal pattern. Instead you see a seasonal pattern where the wind blows more strongly in the autumn and winter than in the spring or summer.

On Nov 21 11:57 AM m. melius wrote:

> rrbatch wrote: "Solar and wind power? Off-cycle - they generate peak
> power at mid-day or at night, not at the time of peak demand. "<br/>
>
> Huh? Mid-day is one of the times of peak demand (evening is another).
> One of the advantages of solar PV power is its peak production at
> the time of peak demand. Source: Wikipedia.
>
> I keep reading claims that wind is strongest at night. Where does
> this myth come from? Maybe there are locales where that is the case,
> but in general, winds are diurnal. Source: IWEA