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Every time I hear new "country/state X achieved Y% of renewable power generation for Z hours", it's usually during warmish sunny weekeds (usually sundays) with
by ajsnigrutin 5y ago
Every time I hear new "country/state X achieved Y% of renewable power generation for Z hours", it's usually during warmish sunny weekeds (usually sundays) with relatively low power use and high sun and wind generation.
If we switch eg. 30% of the current cars to electric, and most people charge them in the evenings/during the night, the math for renewables is a lot different, and without building nuclear, totally unsustainable.
- adrianN 5y agoYou'd have to build a lot more wind turbines while you switch cars to electric, and/or invest in some grid scale storage.
- adgjlsfhk1 5y agoyes. And?
- adrianN 5y agoThe math doesn't change at all, you just need to build things so that supply keeps up with demand. It's not rocket science.
- bryanlarsen 5y agoPlease show that math. There's no math that can justify capital costs of $20B and a 20 year delay for 1.5 GW of capacity. Especially since wind power is stronger at night than during the day, and it's trivial to tell electric cars to charge when it's cheapest to do so.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoReduce corruption maybe? In slovenia (back then yugoslavia), in the 1970/80s with all the communist bullshit and bureaucracy we built one in 6-7 years, and it still works.
- bryanlarsen 5y agoWouldn't that be nice! If we can fix that we could build subways and high speed rail for a reasonable price too! But not even China can build reactors in a timely fashion for a good price. It takes them over 10 years and about $10B per.