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> Nobody is pretending that solar can provide electricity via night time generation. The OP appeared to be suggesting exactly that. It's like the (many) solar
by Turing_Machine 3y ago
> Nobody is pretending that solar can provide electricity via night time generation.
The OP appeared to be suggesting exactly that.
It's like the (many) solar advocates who pretend that a solar nameplate capacity of x watts is equivalent to a conventional nameplate capacity of x watts, when in fact you're going to need 2x watts at a minimum, with an expensive storage system on top of that.
- pfdietz 3y agoIt's polite when reading something it's polite to interpret it in the way that makes the most sense. Your last paragraph is something different -- that's not an implication that solar can generate at night. Note that levelized cost of energy does take into account that consideration (that why it's "levelized"). And renewables are trouncing new construction nuclear on that metric.