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Perhaps, but wind power also tends to peak at night.



Wind speeds near the ground peak in the early afternoon. Higher altitude winds peak at night, but you need quite a large turbine to catch those. Sometimes there's no wind for days at a time.

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/27/11/jcli-d...


Quoting from your link: "It is found that daily extreme wind speeds at 10 m are most likely in the early afternoon, whereas those at 200 m are most likely in between midnight and sunrise"

Ground is irrelevant; there's a reason why wind turbines are being put on top of tall towers.


200m tall towers?


As tall as technically possible. For example Vestas V164 reaches up to 220 meters. Haliade-X reaches up to 260 meters.


Almost, the hub is still a bit more than 50m below but the rotor points above. Modern off-shore ones are true monsters.

For example this one, rotor diameter 220m, highest point 248m.

https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy/offshore-wind...




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