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I have considered a lot of things. Percentage improvement over time means nothing when you have so far to go as wind and solar has. I am not backing anything.
by ThomPete 7y ago
I have considered a lot of things. Percentage improvement over time means nothing when you have so far to go as wind and solar has.
I am not backing anything. I am simply stating the facts which are that wind and solar will never be able to be winner technologies since their density is extremely low, they aren't scalable, their capacity factor is low, they are intermittent, requires extreme amounts of space and arent very flexible.
Thinking you can build a future society on them is as backwards as can be.
That's the reality we are dealing with.
And yes it is just politics. The Windmill "revolution" was started by Denmark the solar panel "revolution" was started by Germany. Who are their customers? Other countries.
Yet none of those countries are even close to supplying their own countries with enough energy through those means.
So sigh away that doesn't make your claims truer today than they were when you last made them.
- pfdietz 7y ago> I have considered a lot of things. Percentage improvement over time means nothing when you have so far to go as wind and solar has. That's simply ridiculous. Any rapidly improving technology will go through a period when it's at 1% market penetration. This cannot be used as an argument that it won't go further. It's as if you cannot wrap your head around exponential growth.