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The problem with 'grid cope' is the basic reality that environmentalists have argued for decades against nuclear. Proposing obviously renewables. But for every
by incomingpain 4y ago
The problem with 'grid cope' is the basic reality that environmentalists have argued for decades against nuclear. Proposing obviously renewables. But for every 1 MW of renewables you have, you must have 1 MW of not-renewables. Generally speaking this ends up being natural gas.
Meanwhile, as we adopt electric cars... and practically every manufacturer is moving this direction and is far behind or is there already. Tesla, Ford, GM, VW, Hyundai/Kia all have fantastic electric cars.
But its not just this. Another major consumer of power is greenhouses; also coming online and expanding now. They tend to be going very high power HPS. These lamps are so bright not even sunglasses are good enough. Your skin burns far more than any beach has ever done.
So we have several new high energy consumers. We dont have any new nuclear plants built. We are shutting off coal plants. The grid cant cope because it's bipolar and dumb.
Why is nobody building gridscale batteries? Why does nobody have huge hydro pumped setups?