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No they won't, unless the storage issue is solved.

• mpweiher 7y ago
  From TFA: "...to build new wind and solar farms equipped with storage systems"
  • weregiraffe 7y ago
    Right, because writing this sentence makes the technology exist.
    • ceejayoz 7y ago
      But... it does? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/18/tesla-big-battery-is-holding-its-own-in-a-burgeoning-energy-storage-market https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/18/tesla-big... Plus stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit..., in use for well over a century.
      • weregiraffe 7y ago
        Neither can be scaled to power the entire human civilization. Not even close, in fact. Seriously, do some research.
• jessaustin 7y ago
  When the future arrives, lots of people will be amazed at how little of the solution to this "issue" ended up being storage as such and how much turned out to be demand management and reasonable system architecture.
  • weregiraffe 7y ago
    When the future arrives, we will build enough nuclear reactors.
    • sunkenvicar 7y ago
      Hopefully before China eats our lunch.
    • jessaustin 7y ago
      Who is "we"? There don't seem to be any investors eager to build these...