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Re:In few years renewable power may become a better economic... by Lapsed on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @10:53PM (#18181600)
"Bigger turbines will create more wind power, and the intermittency of both sources can be optimized with large-scale battery backup facilities."
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Re:In few years renewable power may become a better economic... by DennisP on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @08:01AM (#18184005)
Ok. How much intermittency can they handle?

I'm not talking about smoothing our minor variations in output. I'm talking about enough storage so you don't need fossil backup at all, even if the wind dies down over a large area for a couple days. Battery backup at that scale is not affordable with current technology, but that's what we'd need if we actually got rid of fossil.

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