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> Renewables without grid scale storage are a pipe dream. Renewables don't technically need storage, as long as you overbuild them and expand the grid to avera
by naasking 4y ago
> Renewables without grid scale storage are a pipe dream.
Renewables don't technically need storage, as long as you overbuild them and expand the grid to average over regional variability. Storage just obviates the need for expanding the grid. This was all known decades ago when I was studying engineering. The technology is not the problem, the political will has always been the problem.
- thrown_22 4y agoIt's funny how you sweep _trillions_ of investment to get back to 2010 levels of electric supply as lack of political will.
- naasking 4y agoIt's funny how you sweep the _tens of trillions_ spent on invasions in the middle east to achieve that stable 2010 electric supply, to say nothing of the millions of lives lost. Yeah, "lack of political will" is exactly the problem, because the incentives to continue spending in the current manner are considerable.