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1. The wind may not be blowing here and the sun may not be shining here but I guarantee it's windy and sunny somewhere. Given a well-structured grid and energy
by grigri907 3y ago
1. The wind may not be blowing here and the sun may not be shining here but I guarantee it's windy and sunny somewhere. Given a well-structured grid and energy market, this ceases to become a problem. This is a political problem, not a technology or resource problem.
- toast0 3y ago> I guarantee it's windy and sunny somewhere. Given a well-structured grid and energy market, this ceases to become a problem. Windy, probably, mostly. Sunny, not really; the Pacific ocean is big and there's a big gap in time before solar drops in California and it comes up in Asia. Not to mention that electricity transmission across the oceans is basically infeasible. A more interconnected grid helps, and storage helps, but you also have to acknowledge that highly available electricity tends to cost more than opportunistic sources, especially as solar and wind costs have gone down. And if you want electricity to be dependable, someone has to pay the higher cost for the desired availability.