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This is something people are (intentionally?) ignoring. It's very easy to simplify things down to $/kwh and say "look how much cheaper solar is!" A lot of rese
by declan_roberts 2y ago
This is something people are (intentionally?) ignoring. It's very easy to simplify things down to $/kwh and say "look how much cheaper solar is!"
A lot of research is going into storage. I would say energy storage is THE challenge of our lifetime.
- tux3 2y agoWe could also do more to connect grids across timezones You don't need storage if you can sell your afternoon solar to your neighbor who is at night Sun's always shining somewhere else
- delecti 2y agoBut people are fairly localized to places where there's land. To pick a somewhat extreme example, the pacific ocean doesn't have a lot of places to put solar panels to sell energy to Europe at night.
- wakawaka28 2y agoThat is likely to be very expensive.
- snapplebobapple 2y agoHow many megatons of copper would be needed to be mined to make that happen? What would the line loseses look like? where on the planet are there six to eight tine zones next to each other with equal enough demand to make the excess build out work?There is a good reason we dont have this yet