As a lifelong sailor, there are plenty of shoreline places where wind and solar are positively correlated.. It's called a sea breeze. The sun heats up the land. more than the water. The air over the land rises and the cooler air over the water is sucked in. Insome places such as Corpus Christi you can set your watch by this process. In Perth, Australia, it's called the Fremantle doctor. The same process can happen inland. The Columbia River Gorge is an example. In all these places, race committees know there is little point inscheduling a race before 10AM or after 5PM.
The inverse process overcooling of the land at night does happen creating a shore breeze
which genreally peaks just before dawn. But in my experience, this phenomenon is rarely nearly as strong as the sea breeze.
This graph is misleading. It measures solar PRODUCTION vs wind PRODUCTION. To really assess whether wind and solar are complementary (sic) you need to graph hours of adequate sunshine and hours of adequate wind, scaled by the areas that are feasible for solar and wind production respectively.
As a lifelong sailor, there are plenty of shoreline places where wind and solar are positively correlated.. It's called a sea breeze. The sun heats up the land. more than the water. The air over the land rises and the cooler air over the water is sucked in. Insome places such as Corpus Christi you can set your watch by this process. In Perth, Australia, it's called the Fremantle doctor. The same process can happen inland. The Columbia River Gorge is an example. In all these places, race committees know there is little point inscheduling a race before 10AM or after 5PM.
The inverse process overcooling of the land at night does happen creating a shore breeze
which genreally peaks just before dawn. But in my experience, this phenomenon is rarely nearly as strong as the sea breeze.
This graph is misleading. It measures solar PRODUCTION vs wind PRODUCTION. To really assess whether wind and solar are complementary (sic) you need to graph hours of adequate sunshine and hours of adequate wind, scaled by the areas that are feasible for solar and wind production respectively.
"That the wind blows more at night. Once again the comment was that “everyone know this.”
And what happens when it doesn't? Say...one week per year? What's the plan?