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Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by readams on Thursday August 27, 2020 @02:01PM (#24296581)
Yes the key thing to remember here is that without something to augment it, wind and solar get diminished returned as they become a higher percentage of your generation capacity.

You need either nuclear or some heretofore not invented storage technology (or both) to get a reliable grid where wind and solar are a majority of your capacity.

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Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by nkingsy on Thursday August 27, 2020 @02:14PM (#24296709)
It seems like we have endless ways to store energy at grid scale but we don't employ them because coal/natural gas is "cheaper" than storage, and likely will be until an industry for grid-scale storage starts grinding down costs (as opposed to piggybacking off of something maximized for power/weight like li-ion).
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