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Non-dispatchable renewable require backup power as long as we don't have large scale storage, which we don't. So it's comparing apple to oranges. Let's hope tha
by Krssst 4y ago
Non-dispatchable renewable require backup power as long as we don't have large scale storage, which we don't. So it's comparing apple to oranges. Let's hope that we get such storage sometime soon since it looks like it's the assumption everybody's making. Otherwise we'll still be burning gas and coal as long as we can get our hands on them when NREs are not generating, making the climate worse in the process.
- natmaka 4y agoThis is also true for nuclear. Even France never ceased to burn fossil fuel in order to produce electricity (7 to 10% per year).
- shakow 4y agoThis is only true for France because at some point, presidents decided that the electricity production plan was enough and stopped it in the middle.
- grecy 4y ago> Non-dispatchable renewable require backup power as long as we don't have large scale storage, which we don't And in the time it would take to build a single new nuclear reactor we're going to add a massive, massive amount of large scale storage. It's already well underway. How far along is the next nuclear reactor?