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It's driving up the cost of fossil fuels? Is that supposed to be bad? The cheap energy future will not come from seasonal storage. It will come from massive am
by epistasis 2y ago
It's driving up the cost of fossil fuels? Is that supposed to be bad?
The cheap energy future will not come from seasonal storage. It will come from massive amounts of overcapacity. This is exactly what we already have now, even combined cycle gas turbines have capacity factors that are only about 50%. We will see the same for solar and wind: during the seasonal peak, not all of that free energy will be used. And during the seasonal valley of renewable generation, almost all of the renewable energy will be used.
This is going to be far cheaper than fossil fuels. And by having all the storage we're building out, we will see massive increases in electricity reliability that are simply not possible with traditional big grids and large single points of failure.