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You can't ship solar power to remote places that need power in the way you would a barrel of oil, or coal. We also don't have batteries that are up to the job o
by jherdman 5y ago
You can't ship solar power to remote places that need power in the way you would a barrel of oil, or coal. We also don't have batteries that are up to the job of storing power.
- epistasis 5y agoWhat tiny fraction of world energy use is that, however? And of existing world use of energy like that, most of it is used to extract fossil fuels. There's not much reason to be out in remote areas except for resource extraction.
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- aqme28 5y agoOn the contrary, remote places are some of the best served by solar and wind because shipping fuels is expensive.
- gpm 5y agoI know exactly one family that lives off the grid. I also know exactly one family that lives entirely on solar panels and batteries. It shouldn't be a surprise that they are the same family, solar is really the only electricity generation solution that scales down nicely for remote places. Solar fails at high power density applications, like airplanes, not remote ones. I suppose it also fails at "remote and north of the arctic circle/south of the antarctic circle" ones, but that's a pretty tiny rounding error of energy usage.
- axiolite 5y ago> I suppose it also fails at "remote and north of the arctic circle/south of the antarctic circle" ones, but that's a pretty tiny rounding error of energy usage. On the contrary. Shipping diesel to remote Alaskan villages is so incredibly expensive, even with subsidies, that they're seeing a boom in solar power even that far north.