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The cost of solar panels and batteries has tumbled over the last decade, but it would still take an enormous amount of battery storage to cover weeks/months of
by cbeach 1y ago
The cost of solar panels and batteries has tumbled over the last decade, but it would still take an enormous amount of battery storage to cover weeks/months of cloud, which is common in many parts of the world.
To describe solar+batteries as "baseload" is like calling the Martingale Strategy an infinite money machine. It works brilliantly until it doesn't.
- ben_w 1y ago"Really cloudy" still has a lot of sun; e.g. dunkelflaute is often defined as when both solar and wind are simultaneously below 20% peak output, which just means "let's have five of this absurdly cheap thing".