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Ah, energy storage. Fans of wind and solar paper over this like it is no big deal. When exactly can we expect to see this cheap, ubiquitous energy storage tha
by bequanna 3y ago
Ah, energy storage.
Fans of wind and solar paper over this like it is no big deal.
When exactly can we expect to see this cheap, ubiquitous energy storage that will solve all of our intermittent generation problems?
- ceejayoz 3y agoWhen we needed massive technological improvements and production capacity for batteries to support cell phones, it happened. The same is now true for electric vehicles. There's little reason to think grid-scale storage is going to play out differently; humans are historically pretty good at this. Detractors of wind and solar like to pretend disingenously they're proposed in isolation by idiots, but that's hardly the case. You'll see hydro, nuclear, gas/biomass peaker plants, etc. in the mix, and you'll see overprovisioned capacity of the cheaper generation forms like wind and solar to account for seasonal or weather-related dips in production.
- bequanna 3y agoSo, we should create a problem of unimaginable scale because future people will solve it? Sounds like Boomer thinking: we’ll just screw over those spoiled kids.
- ceejayoz 3y agoWhat is the problem of “unimaginable scale” you’re referring to? You can already get a home battery and enough solar to fill it. We’re already doing energy storage. As has happened with cellphones, EVs, solar, and wind, the more we do it, the cheaper it’ll be. No one’s proposing nuking fossil fuel plants and going “oops better fix that”.