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Because it isn't valuable. Around here you get paid approximately nothing to put power into the grid. The asymmetry is comically large.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Because it isn't valuable. Around here you get paid approximately nothing to put power into the grid. The asymmetry is comically large.
- sokoloff 5y agoSure, but you seem willing to instead get something high in carbon that’s economically valueless and pay to bury it in the ground. That seems unlikely to be more carbon-efficient than curtailing someone else’s use of the fuel of last resort.
- zbrozek 5y agoRight, but I'm not trying to optimize carbon efficiency. And neither are the regulators. If they were trying to reduce GHG emissions, they'd keep the nuclear plants operational, try to drive down the price of electricity relative to everything else, and have better pricing to feed in to the grid. As it is, the cheapest way for me to get electricity is to buy a turbine generator and burn natural gas myself. Which is completely insane.