> If you included 24 hours of storage in the LCOE then solar and wind probably stop looking quite so cheap. But if you ignore the biggest innate trade-off then

> If you included 24 hours of storage in the LCOE then solar and wind probably stop looking quite so cheap. But if you ignore the biggest innate trade-off then they become the cheapest energy around. But this is the basic disconnect in the way that renewables are discussed. You can't ignore the intermittent nature of the renewables, which means you need other power generation on the grid to make up the difference, which means you have to include the costs of the backup or storage system in your analysis. It is easy to make things look cheap if you pretend the expensive parts aren't needed.