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And I'm sure there must be somewhere better to put the wind turbines. Shove some on oil rigs at least (and hopefully those same oil rigs will become disused soon too).
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The problem with this idea is too much wind e.g. a storm will destroy said turbines and if they're in the middle of the damn sea they're gonna require a heck of a lot of maintenance and repair work.
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Solar panels can work at night off of moonlight too, and thus spend virtually 100% of their rime charging up energy. More sunlight obviously works better, but considering one long house can get all the electrical energy it needs and more from only one half of it's roof being covered in solar panels...you figure it out.
Solar panels rule.
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Its not just nightfall that would pose a problem, the biggest problem I see solar panels facing is geometry. For instance if a house was covered in panels like everyone imagined in the 90's the only part of your house which would receive an efficient amount of energy would be the eastern side in the morning and the western side in the evening and this would be very dependent on cloud cover and the like.
The best totally renewable energy source we have at the moment is undoubtedly Geothermal yet unfortunately that has the negatives of only working in regions with a thin crust so Iceland and Hawaii should in theory have an renewable source of energy ad infinitum.