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Wind and solar could be free and we would still have currently unsolved problems of either storage or clean peaking capacity.

• syrrim 7y ago
  If they were free, then efficiency in the storage would become a non-issue.
  • 0xffff2 7y ago
    Storage efficiency is already a non-issue in the sense that we still don't have any real plan to build anywhere near enough of it to enable a pure solar/wind grid.
    • syrrim 7y ago
      Step 1: turn carbon dioxide into fuel Step 2: burn said fuel for power, when needed Step 3: profit
• pfdietz 7y ago
  If wind and solar were free then storage via electrolysis and hydrogen (burned in simple or combined cycle turbine power plants) would be cheaper than any thermal baseload source.