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Beats solar means nothing at 5AM in Poland when wind is at 5% of capacity. https://i.imgur.com/LAJ2cKP.png https://i.imgur.com/LAJ2cKP.png This is the real pro
by KptMarchewa 4y ago
Beats solar means nothing at 5AM in Poland when wind is at 5% of capacity. https://i.imgur.com/LAJ2cKP.png https://i.imgur.com/LAJ2cKP.png
This is the real problem with renewables. You need to 20-30x them to get to real usage. Or have 100% redundant gas coverage, with giant political problems coming with it.
- Retric 4y ago“battery backed solar” Poland is far from the equator yet it’s still a great fit for solar thermal power which can cheaply store energy in hot water. It also has 12.5GW of PV because it’s still a cost effective location for solar power.
- KptMarchewa 4y agoYou can't just wish batteries with day's worth of electricity generation capacity into existence.
- Retric 4y agoUltimately it just takes money and time. You don’t get anything in seconds, but over years you just pay people to build them and they build factories just like you pay people to build equipment for other types of power plants. New limits always show up with new scales. People will advocate dramatically scaling nuclear as if tens of thousands of people with the skills to operate them are sitting around with nothing to do. Lack of skilled workers is actually a larger limiting factor for nuclear than the few years it takes to build a single reactor and one of the reasons they can’t make a significant difference without at least a decade of lead time and more likely several. Current programs can teach people reasonably quickly, but you need not just students but more people trained to teach the material.