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Electric costs will rise too.
by ohiovr 4y ago
Electric costs will rise too.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoElectric costs will only fall as renewables are deployed. Enough sunlight hits the earth in 30 minutes to power civilization for a year.
- hammyhavoc 4y agoWow! Great stat, do you have a source so I can use that elsewhere?
- toomuchtodo 4y agoI misspoke. It’s every 2 minutes. > Every two minutes, the energy reaching the earth from the sun is equivalent to the whole annual energy use of humanity. All the energy … the cars, lighting, and air conditioning of the world … in one year is equivalent to two minutes of the sun,” said Dr Lamya N. Fawwaz, vice-president for Institutional Advancement and Public Affairs at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST). https://www.energy.gov/articles/top-6-things-you-didnt-know-about-solar-energy https://www.energy.gov/articles/top-6-things-you-didnt-know-... https://gulfnews.com/uae/environment/two-minutes-of-sun-enough-to-power-a-years-usage-of-humanity-1.1910990 https://gulfnews.com/uae/environment/two-minutes-of-sun-enou...
- nradov 4y agoElectric costs will only rise as expensive storage systems and higher capacity grid ties are deployed. Renewable generation is great, but it's useless for much of the day when there's little wind or sunshine. So in order to prevent outages we need to either import the power from far away, or store enough to cover multiple days of generation shortfalls.
- cplusplusfellow 4y agoDon’t forget that transmission is a huge component of electricity cost and only going to increase with congestion and inflation.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoTransmission isn’t necessary if local generation offsets local consumption.