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No need to obsess with solar if it doesn't work for you, its just that solar is so good. It uses manufactured devices that you just point to the sky and makes y
by mrtksn 1y ago
No need to obsess with solar if it doesn't work for you, its just that solar is so good. It uses manufactured devices that you just point to the sky and makes your machine run. For stability of course you need something like nuclear or storage.
- looping__lui 1y agoIndustrialized countries generally need stability when it comes to electricity. People also want to watch TV whenever they like and take a hot shower whenever they feel like it.
- stuaxo 1y agoStorage helps even out spikes.
- looping__lui 1y agoIn Germany: probably not so much when wind and PV aren’t busy for a month straight and we still need to keep our industry up and running. We’ll, I’ll take that back - we probably solved all that by running our economy into the ground
- ViewTrick1002 1y ago> In Germany: probably not so much when wind and PV aren’t busy for a month straight and we still need to keep our industry up and running. Please do go ahead and show some data on when we had a month long solar eclipse without wind.
- looping__lui 1y agohttps://www.tech-for-future.de/dunkelflaute/ https://www.tech-for-future.de/dunkelflaute/ A couple of weeks happen from time to time
- Sabinus 1y agoPursuing an industrial strategy predicated on eternal cheap Russian gas (a strategy no doubt encouraged by Russian influence post-GDR) left Germany vulnerable to this situation. It is indeed admirable that they are willing to give it up now for principals, unlike Orban and Hungary.
- looping__lui 1y agoYeah, well, it was also very much “get rid of nuclear” that accelerated this path.
- Sabinus 1y agoAllegedly the Russians also heavily encouraged the German Green movement to go hard against nuclear energy.
- mrtksn 1y agoYes that's what nuclear and storage helps with
- nicoburns 1y agoSome things need reliable, dispatchable, energy. But a lot of demand could (and probably should) be shifted to when energy is abundant.
- looping__lui 1y agoIn an industrialized country like Germany - not really. You’d be surprised how little day/night affect our electricity consumption…
- ericd 1y agoThe hot shower thing is an interesting example, since the tanked ones generally have a lot of flexibility in when they heat the water.