Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap

Re:Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap by peterwoerner on Thursday May 14, 2020 @09:27PM (#23187823)

But the solution isn't batteries, it stored hydroelectric. Only works where you have mountains though.

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Re:Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap by tim333 on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:07AM (#23189072)

Batteries are a bit uneconomical now but may well fall in price like solar has. See for example:

>A startup run by a Tesla veteran and backed by Bill Gates is promising to build a long-duration battery that's 50 to 100 times cheaper than lithium-ion https://www.businessinsider.com/form-energy-battery-startup-...

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Re:Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap by gyogyo on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:29AM (#23189511)

Europe is already using something like 90% of our hydro electricity potential. So far, countries either: - added renewable energies on top of existing fossil fuel based power generation (gas, coal) - added renewable energies and replaced coal with gas (US for instance)

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Re:Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap by greglindahl on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:04AM (#23188782)

How is that a solution when it's difficult to build more of it?

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Re:Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap by peterwoerner on Monday May 25, 2020 @05:33PM (#23305215)

Its only the only economical solution currently. Orders of magnitude cheaper than other solutions.

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