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Nicely said. That last point tells you why they get support from oil companies. It's empty climate signaling. I'd like to see an oil company bet on nuclear.
by hairytrog 7y ago
Nicely said. That last point tells you why they get support from oil companies. It's empty climate signaling. I'd like to see an oil company bet on nuclear.
- sunstone 7y agoMy understanding is that models show that with a large enough geographically diverse combination of wind and solar almost no storage is required. Furthermore, with the cost of HVDC transmission lines dropping so quickly it's becoming economic to build such large networks.
- temac 7y agoModels shows precisely the inverse at least in Europe (there is mostly no independent abundance of wind/solar, at least way not enough) It even shows today with even quite small capacity disturbing market prices. That's why even "low" production costs can make wind not profitable; you end up selling your production with very low prices (because there is some overproduction), in some cases even negatives. You would not have that problem with storage. But then the production costs of wind+storage are already high...
- xyzzyz 7y agoWith a “large enough” network, sure, but you just defined your way out of the problem. The real question is, how large exactly the network need to be. Is the required installed capacity 2 times average use? 10 times? 50 times?
- hairytrog 7y agoNetworks are expensive and not resilient.