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Problems with renewable energy: wind and solar challenges.Realistically, if we truly want to bend the curve on carbon emissions, we must start diversifying our strategies, relying on more than just renewables.
Advanced heat solutions represent excellent complementary technologies to wind and solar power, as these renewables face real challenges.For example, low density means that in order to harness enough energy to power the UK, we would need to build a solar farm of an impossibly large size.Renewables also have problems to do with dispatch power and consistency, as well as challenges with site locations.
Last summer, which was a still and cloudy one, wind and solar simply didn’t generate as much energy as we would have liked, and at this stage, all of the easiest, most suitable sites (the ones which may have access to transmission, and are very suited to wind and solar projects), have already been taken.. Interestingly, while energy systems modelling for wind and solar power often shows a hockey stick curve, as if the upward trajectory of deployment will continue undeterred, in actual fact, this isn’t the case.Over time, we find that the hockey stick turns into an S shaped curve instead.
In other words, renewables are getting progressively harder to do.
In fact, the more we build, the more challenging renewable energy becomes..It is often possible to mitigate some of this through good design, such as lowering ceilings in corridors to accommodate main ductwork runs or positioning lower height rooms close to risers.
Ground floor units and older office buildings may also have larger floor-to-floor heights, and there can even be opportunities to increase headroom by removing raised-access floors (though this will impact floor thresholds.)A deeper ceiling void may also introduce the need for sprinklers or fire detection systems.. 3.
Structural frames in existing office buildings may be unable to support higher lab loads or vibration sensitive equipment..Some automated and larger-scale lab equipment can be particularly heavy, and even high densities of smaller equipment or storage items can result in relatively high loads when compared to a standard office fit-out.