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"The goal is to have enough capacity and intermediary storage to be able to deliver constant peak power with both combined." But this is an irrational goal bec
by origin_path 4y ago
"The goal is to have enough capacity and intermediary storage to be able to deliver constant peak power with both combined."
But this is an irrational goal because there is no way to do that intermediary storage on the scale that is required, and as I just pointed out, wind and solar are frequently yielding nearly zero power even when summed together. In your other comments you're talking about pressurized air caverns and other things that are sci-fi projects right now but the crisis Germany is causing with its policies is here today.
This is why greenism is irrational. We're not talking about theoretically perfect power grids here, we're talking about what technologies exist today, to deliver the kind of stability required for a trans-national grid. Renewables aren't even close to this and there's no sign of that changing on the horizon. The refusal to accept that is now more than just annoying, it's becoming flat out dangerous.
- j-pb 4y agoAll of the tech I mentioned is either operating in pilot studies or full scale systems. Both combined as in renewables + storage, not wind + solar. You got way too much set phrases and trite political cliches going on for any meaningful discussion. Solar, wind and storage are here today, they are cheaper than coal, nuclear and gas, even WITHOUT externalised costs of climate change, and long term storage. The people that are dangerous are the ones that want to make energy politics a political game, and those that want to make as much personal profit from it as possible.