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There are problems of baseload power that neither solar nor wind reliably solve though. Barring the introduction of a complex system of storage to the electrica
by TimPC 4y ago
There are problems of baseload power that neither solar nor wind reliably solve though. Barring the introduction of a complex system of storage to the electrical grid you don’t just need a certain amount of total power generation you need the distribution of production to match the distribution of consumption. We can generate much of this with solar and wind if we are comfortable with having far less power at night from solar and irregular power generation based on weather conditions from wind. This can work well when these technologies are small portions of the grid but it causes problems when we rely on them for substantial portions of power generation.
- ncmncm 4y ago> a complex system of storage ... which will be built when it makes sense to build it. Right now, building out storage makes no sense. Money that could be spent on storage is now rightly spent on generating capacity that can still displace carbon polluters. When there is too little carbon pollution left to displace, then will be time to build storage. By that time the storage will be radically cheaper to buy, because its cost is falling even faster than renewables cost ever did.
- sandos 4y agoAlso, storage will look wildly different in differen parts of the world.