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>They used to love talking about how expensive and unreliable and unsafe it is. Because now you can just look outside. https://www.wsj.com/articles/energy-pri
by KptMarchewa 5y ago
>They used to love talking about how expensive and unreliable and unsafe it is.
Because now you can just look outside.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/energy-prices-in-europe-hit-records-after-wind-stops-blowing-11631528258 https://www.wsj.com/articles/energy-prices-in-europe-hit-rec...
Renewables are great, but you can't 100% rely on them. Batteries are too expensive to do more than short-term load balancing.
Either you massively overprovision everything - and MW for MW cost comparisons stop making sense - or you have brownouts.
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoWhere by "look outside" you mean "read headlines in Murdoch-owned newspapers printed in the states and talking about Europe"? Yes, high gas prices partly caused by political shenanigans totally made me thankful that we hadn't moved faster to electrification and renewables and instead dragged our feet for so many years because of bogus fears that renewables would be ruinously costly and not even work and kill all the birds etc. Well done to everyone who contributed to that propaganda effort.
- JumpCrisscross 5y agoIf ignoring the facts is the reaction to demonstrable grid instability in most of Europe, India and China, the future looks bleak for renewables.
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoThat's a very vague and non specific accusation. Presumably because your facts aren't actually facts and if you stated what facts you thought they were ignoring, someone would point out that you're wrong. But yes, let's all hope together that governments around the world don't ignore basic facts when dealing with this or any other issue. We'll just quietly disagree on what the facts actually are, because hey they're only facts, nothing important.