Re:Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity
by DennisP on Friday September 09, 2016 @06:16PM
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Let your factory sit partly idle sometimes and you increase the capital cost per unit of production.
If wind/solar depends on this sort of thing, then basically it's imposing an externality on factories, and we should account for that as part of their cost.
I'm all for preventing global warming, I just want to do it in the way that's most cost-effective for society as a whole, and that probably means including nuclear as part of the solution so we don't have to shut down factories when the wind doesn't blow at night.
If wind/solar depends on this sort of thing, then basically it's imposing an externality on factories, and we should account for that as part of their cost.
I'm all for preventing global warming, I just want to do it in the way that's most cost-effective for society as a whole, and that probably means including nuclear as part of the solution so we don't have to shut down factories when the wind doesn't blow at night.