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Here's a refreshing read on some of the issues with solar specifically: https://doomberg.substack.com/p/herbie-spoils-the-party https://doomberg.substack.com/p
by spurgu 5y ago
Here's a refreshing read on some of the issues with solar specifically:
https://doomberg.substack.com/p/herbie-spoils-the-party https://doomberg.substack.com/p/herbie-spoils-the-party
- margalabargala 5y agoGreat article, thanks. Something that occurs to me- currently, the main way that countries with an excess of electricity export that excess is via smelting aluminum (Tiwai in NZ and Hafnarfjörður in Iceland, for example). It looks like it costs about $1.5 billion and takes ~2 years to create a new large polysilicon plant. Perhaps we'll see some of these places with an excess of unrealized hydroelectric capacity moving towards polysilicon production rather than aluminum. Looks like the polysilicon plant in Washington (also an area with a lot of hydro power) is being restarted: https://www.bernreuter.com/newsroom/polysilicon-news/article/rec-silicon-planning-to-restart-its-plant-in-moses-lake-in-2022/ https://www.bernreuter.com/newsroom/polysilicon-news/article...