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Measuring intermittent sources by raw price per watt hour is misleading. How much does solar cost at night? Or wind energy on windless days? A lot more because
by manfredo 6y ago
Measuring intermittent sources by raw price per watt hour is misleading. How much does solar cost at night? Or wind energy on windless days? A lot more because it needs to be stored and retrieved.
Shaving 10-20% off fossil fuels with intermittent sources is easy. Actually decarbonizing the energy sector with intermittent sources is much more difficult, since demand and supply do not match up.
Contrast Germany and France. The champions of intermittent sources and nuclear energy respectively, and take a look at the CO2 per KWh: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/co2-emission-intensity-5 https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/co2-emission-i...
- canadianfella 6y agoIs geothermal intermittent?