Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK government

Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by ThomPete on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:16PM (#24298147)

Yeah but you wouldn't be happy that your incubator or AC didn't work when it needed to. You wouldn't be happy either if factories can't produce enough food because they would have to wait for wind or sun.

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Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by Dylan16807 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @05:45PM (#24299048)

> Yeah but you wouldn't be happy that your incubator or AC didn't work when it needed to.

You can spend some of the money you'd otherwise save on electricity in those cases.

> You wouldn't be happy either if factories can't produce enough food because they would have to wait for wind or sun.

A factory shifting hours wouldn't be noticeable at all by the time the product reaches the consumer weeks later.

If the factory isn't running enough hours at all, that's not a problem caused by renewables being unpredictable. That's just bad management.

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Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by ThomPete on Thursday August 27, 2020 @07:47PM (#24299975)

You would burn them money to create enough energy or what exactly is your point?

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Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by Dylan16807 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @10:49PM (#24300924)

If you think supply and demand is going to completely stop working, then you can use your money to have a battery.

But more realistically you'll be able to pay more per watt for that short period and get as many amps as your house can handle.

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Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by ThomPete on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:02AM (#24301240)

I am not sure whether you are serious or not, but yo do know that only a fraction of humans can do what you are propsing rigt?

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Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by Dylan16807 on Friday August 28, 2020 @03:49PM (#24309179)

If your power gets cheaper because it's all renewables, then anyone could save up that money and use it for those situations.

But also, buying such a variable-price contract is only going to be an option. If you want a certain amount of guaranteed-price power, as an individual household, there will always be someone willing it to you.

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Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by sandworm101 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:25PM (#24298238)

>> if factories can't produce enough food

We could all probably do well eating a little less factory-produced food and a little more farm-produced food.

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Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by ThomPete on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:43PM (#24298415)

You going to tell the poor that they need to pay more for their organic grasfeed wagu beefs?

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