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You just build more solar panels/wind turbines/geothermal/whatever. Why wouldn’t renewables be able to scale?
by Armisael16 6y ago
You just build more solar panels/wind turbines/geothermal/whatever.
Why wouldn’t renewables be able to scale?
- johnchristopher 6y agoIn my very child-like view of how electricity works you need sustained massive input to feed massive machines. Like we need boosters that are really powerful to lift us off from earth's gravity well, that's why we can't hook up our space shuttles to an outlet in the wall because it doesn't deliver enough raw power.
- Armisael16 6y agoI mean, yeah, you do. Why wouldn't renewables be able to power a grid that runs those things? CERN doesn't have an on-site power plant - it just hooks into the European grid via a French substation (it also has a connection to a Swiss substation as a partial backup, but it isn't used during normal operation).