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This community is inspired by this post on !showerthoughts@lemmy.world:
We really need a community where you can just post about anything that you’re really passionate about, which you’re currently researching/thinking about, sothat others can learn something about it as well and maybe discuss about it.
This showerthoughts community is a bit like it because you can just post whatever comes to your mind, but i’d like it to be more in-depth and with higher quality. Something like showerthoughts, but bathtubthoughts, i.e. when you’re soaking in a hot bathtub and thinking about stuff for 20 minutes or sth, and then post that. You know what i mean?
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Vienna would need about 150 km² of solar panels to produce enough electricity
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However, seasonal variations are a thing. You’d need a lot more in winter. June makes over 6x the power that January makes. Batteries aren’t really a total solution to that.
Check out https://pvwatts.nrel.gov/pvwatts.php
I suspect, though I don’t know for sure, that a 100% coverage of Vienna roofs is going to be close to that 400m2. Walkways, parks, roads, railways, and all that add up. Your square is over Prater, and Augarten for example, and the Danube.