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You need to revisit your facts. Solar plants with storage are currently in operation [1] [2]. They have been producing 370GWh per year. This is tiny compared
by alphydan 10y ago
You need to revisit your facts. Solar plants with storage are currently in operation [1] [2]. They have been producing 370GWh per year. This is tiny compared to a mid-sized nuclear power plant, but the technology is there and is easy to scale up without hazards.
[1] http://torresolenergy.com/TORRESOL/valles.html?swlang=en http://torresolenergy.com/TORRESOL/valles.html?swlang=en
[2] http://torresolenergy.com/TORRESOL/gemasolar.html?swlang=en http://torresolenergy.com/TORRESOL/gemasolar.html?swlang=en
- lmm 10y agoI think it's fair to characterize a 50MW plant as "experimental" or at least "not in full-scale production".
- alphydan 10y agoYou will agree then that a 10kW residential solar installation on a roof is "experimental" and "not in full-scale production". What about the 1 million residential solar installations done in 2016? Is that "experimental"? When you add 20 100MW plants, you reach the scale of a nuclear plant. That is precisely the beauty of solar. That it can grow incrementally without high capital costs (unlike borrowing $4bn and a huge insurance at once with nuclear).
- lmm 10y agoWhether PV solar is in full-scale production is irrelevant, because PV can't supply baseline power.