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CaspianReport has a good video on why it's hard to make the transition to renewables. Renewables are already being built at an exponential rate, but we're start
by burner0001932 5y ago
CaspianReport has a good video on why it's hard to make the transition to renewables. Renewables are already being built at an exponential rate, but we're starting from a low starting point. Since we can't get off of coal and oil and go straight to renewables, we're moving to LNG as the transition fuel. LNG, though, is very expensive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUTCPYwHguA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUTCPYwHguA
- pydry 5y agoWe're still at a stage right now though, where solar panels and wind turbines are the cheapest form of energy by a wide, wide margin and every MWh of electricity they generate is almost guaranteed to be MWh natural gas that doesn't get burned. When natural gas regularly goes below 5-8% of grid production then we should probably shift focus to intermittency and storage but for now trying to solve the intermittency problem at the expense of generating less energy overall simply means more natural gas will get burned overall.