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Renewable energy believers like to spam any discussion with random links to "100% renewable models". I just got one...

cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2

They start big: 716'000 off-shore wind turbines. To give you an idea how many that is, UK recently deployed an off-shore wind farm of 116 towers occupying 70 km2.

Per Stanford model, we'd need no less than 432'000 km2 or 1.2x size of Germany or a square of 700x700 km2 (with actual wind & sea depth).

But then, they mention 2.3m on-shore turbines...

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