If its solar, i think clearly its middle west and southward and taidong that are most suited for solar. Northern taiwan has quite a bit of cloud cover compared to the south. That said, northern taiwan has a far more useful justification based on efficiency and sun than countries like say germany. So there are few logical excuses against solar in taiwan with the exception of various mountianous areas. Plus, The current solar proliferation corruption with panels being built on food producing land is beyond infuriating!!! That level of idiocy should be tried in court on the level of treason…
Regardless, there will be haters that point out battery issues, panel pollution from manufacturing etc etc that point fingers and dont realize its developing and we ought to develop it cleaner. The combustion engine on old trains powered by coal are insanely less efficient than todays trains. And tomorrows trains should absolutely be more efficient than todays trains. I always get confused why so many people are up in arms against developing new shit…its truly puzzling. Nuclear has promising new directions too, but it is so far like everyhing else. Risky. And given political corruption controlling atomic safety, the entire world has justified reason to be concerned! Taiwan as well.
I would argue that we dont need the current risk of old and corrupt nuclear systems in taiwan because we literally have no where to run when shit hits the fan. This island is very tiny, and we should be honest with ourselves about these realities and couple them with he political stage that is currently all odds against taiwan as we know it today. if it werent a worry, it wouldnt be discussed so heavily…reality sucks for taiwan an its future.
I also totally agree coal/fossil fuel based electricity is dirty as all fuck in taiwan. I also agree that renewable/sustainable/green/clean (whatever marketing term one cares to run with) is still quite innefficient. But i think it should be insanely obvious that running power from sun energy is worth pursuing because it is the most usable, nearly infinite power we have that has a very low danger rating. Nuclear is as well, But the risks between the 2 speak for themselves…
If taiwan gave the same priority to sustianability (largely energy, but also food, water, production, logistics, education etc etc…) that we do to just TSMC alone, we would have already deactivated the coal plants years ago.
It’s aggravating how little foresight society has as a collective whats worse, is taiwan has the money to do it, a small enough land mass to do it efficiently, the economybto make it actually profitable AND sustainable, the climate and geology to do it cheaper and the political incentives to make it happen based on basic survival. Question is, why not?!?