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Cheap solar is a meme. Zero solar farms can provide their sticker output overnight after an overcast winter day. Most can't provide their sticker output all nig
by marcusverus 3y ago
Cheap solar is a meme. Zero solar farms can provide their sticker output overnight after an overcast winter day. Most can't provide their sticker output all night after a sunny summer day! Of course, these shortfalls can't result in blackouts, so instead we simply keep extra backup capacity on standby. The studies never price this in, but you can rest assured that the energy companies do.
- fragmede 3y agoThankfully, California's main problems in the southern California region is the need for electricity to run air conditioners during the day, so that's not the worst problem. Nuclear would be better but there are other problems with it that make it unviable.
- marcusverus 3y agoCalifornia's own regulations will soon be adding a lot of evening/night-time demand [0]. Surely it's a problem that a huge amount of demand will be coming online just as solar output is falling to nil? Nuclear plants have been powering France for 50 years, of course it is viable! [0] https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/us/california-ban-gasoline-cars.html https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/us/cal...