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I cannot ignore negative personal effect of loud wind turbines and healthcare cost of the PM10 and finer particulates either. No, renewables cannot provide all

I cannot ignore negative personal effect of loud wind turbines and healthcare cost of the PM10 and finer particulates either. No, renewables cannot provide all the power we need even if humanity scales down the energy use, which is not going to happen. (Batteries, even sodium-sulfur, at these scales are impossibly expensive, same with pumped storage.)

legulere 6y ago
Which renewables are producing PM10 emissions? The problem of renewables is not the power they can produce, but how to handle intermittency. Better electricity networks are one part of the solution, batteries can be as well. Even with 50% renewables Germany has one of the most stable electricity networks in the world. Also in the traditional base-peaked system you still need peeking power plants and you have problems with weather effects (in summer water in rivers can get too warm to use it or dry up, in winter it can freeze)