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Lots of information about land usage, not so much about power usage beyond "it'll run on renewables". I imagine their cost benefit analysis boils down to "gover
by kmeisthax 3y ago
Lots of information about land usage, not so much about power usage beyond "it'll run on renewables". I imagine their cost benefit analysis boils down to "governments will pay for it to not die", which sounds rather optimistic.
- michaelt 3y agoThey can also get cash from big oil and car companies, who will offer this to regulators as an argument to let them keep polluting. For this application it doesn’t matter if it works or not.
- somedude895 3y agoAnd then wouldn't all that renewable energy production better be used to replace fossil fuel production? Maybe once we've replaced all possible CO2 emitting power generation it would make sense to start building out more to power these things?
- lillecarl 3y agoThis is the scheduling problem, you can't schedule all renewables, so using them inefficiently is better than not at all.
- doikor 3y agoI think a part of it is waiting for the point of time when overproduction from renewables is to the point that we regularly hit 0 (or negative) prices for some parts of the day. Then you basically only run it during those times when electricity is almost free. This is already happening on windy days in the summer in northern Europe (Finland and northern parts of Sweden/Norway).