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Technically, you can build more renewables than you need to have 100% renewables in almost all circumstances. Then you have something like gas power plants powe
by Gasp0de 4y ago
Technically, you can build more renewables than you need to have 100% renewables in almost all circumstances. Then you have something like gas power plants powered by gas generated from excess energy on sunny days to get through the rest of the days.
- glogla 4y agoYou're right. Low-carbon baseload, massive overprovisioning, storage or combination of these are needed to make renewables practical. The problem is, lots of people are working against low-carbon baseload for stupid reasons, storage is not really a scalably solved problem and if you account for overprovisioning, the price isn't great.
- alexvoda 4y agoAdd to that exporting too. Europe has a grid that makes trading electricity between countries possible. There are plenty of opportunities for interconnectivity resulting in better efficiency.
- Manuel_D 4y ago> Then you have something like gas power plants powered by gas generated from excess energy on sunny days to get through the rest of the days. Except this is exceptionally hard to do. There's no effective way to creating methane from atmospheric carbon dioxide. The handful of applications for the Sabatier process is using concentrated CO2 formed as byproducts from the chemical industry