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Looks at Europe, the country that doesn't have an enormous amount of hydro electricity and have the lowest carbon intensity for its electricity is France: htt
by Kuinox 4y ago
Looks at Europe, the country that doesn't have an enormous amount of hydro electricity and have the lowest carbon intensity for its electricity is France:
https://app.electricitymaps.com/map https://app.electricitymaps.com/map
Renewable cannot provide a base load (except hydro which require specific geography not everyone has), thus cannot work in practice. Germany use coal and natural gas to provide their baseload, but in doing so, emit so much polution they indirectly kill thousands of peoples each year:
https://env-health.org/IMG/pdf/dark_cloud-full_report_final.pdf https://env-health.org/IMG/pdf/dark_cloud-full_report_final....
No, you cannot store enormous quantity of energy a fully renewable grid would need, it has never been done, and we need a solution right now.
Since the 1980 France do low carbon electricity with it's nuclear, every days, whether there is sun or not, wether there is wind or not.
It's an existing tech, that is known to work, and work at scale.
- Raydovsky 4y agoAnd its extremely safe.
- Schroedingersat 4y ago> No, you cannot store enormous quantity of energy a fully renewable grid would need, it has never been done, and we need a solution right now. Good thing electrolysers tend to be roughly on time and on budget. > It's an existing tech, that is known to work, and work at scale. Scale enough to fully exhaust the available U235 in one year if we move all energy generation on to it?