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Residential solar was a terrible idea. It only works during the day, it is hard to store, and you can't efficiently transport it to where there is demand withou
by mike_d 2y ago
Residential solar was a terrible idea. It only works during the day, it is hard to store, and you can't efficiently transport it to where there is demand without a major overhaul of the grid.
I guess you could pump seawater to affluent neighborhoods for processing, but then you need to rethink drinking water distribution.
It would have made so much more sense to just build nuclear plants along side desalination plants, but the oil industry convinced everyone that nuclear is a scary boogie monster.
- xp84 2y agoNaive question: if we expanded a lot of residential and light commercial solar heavily enough, could the excess capacity no longer needed from the grid in the daytime be efficiently transmitted to where it’s needed?
- Gibbon1 2y agoSomewhere I saw someones study that said it's better to build solar and batteries than solar and transmission lines. I think wind is maybe more of an issue since wind and people don't line up geographically as much as solar and people.
- lukas099 2y agoI saw somewhere the opposite: that it’s better to build solar and transmission lines. So idk what the truth is.