Stanky posted:I believe the Brookings Institution would disagree:
https://www.brookings.edu/blog...wind-or-solar-power/
I believe Germany is in the process of leveling several old villages dating to medieval times to get to the brown coal underneath those villages because solar and wind power have been a complete bust at suppling a reliable base load; even when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing, the coal plants are churning out plant food. The sun doesn't shine at night and until someone couples a gigantic fan to a perpetual motion machine, wind power will be intermittent. Unless one has a lot of cheap land that can be inundated for hydropower, there is no way to supplant fossil or fission power yet.
The Germans have done this for most of the latter part of the 20th century. Buildings with historic significance are either relocated, or dug around (filled in later). They also import US coal as its cleaner burning.