Re:The booming business of knitting together the world’s ele...
by pfdietz on Sunday October 17, 2021 @08:30PM
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Using batteries to get renewables to 100% is bad systems engineering. It's cheaper to use something like hydrogen for the last 10-20%, and for seasonal load leveling.
Re:The booming business of knitting together the world’s ele...
by labawi on Monday October 18, 2021 @01:54PM
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Yes, they do.
If you notice, you have mentioned baseload, baseload power generation, baseload demand or base-anything exactly 0 times, because it has near 0 relevance, which is the point of the entire discussion.
And no, betting on a good winter isn't a solution. If those batteries runs out and large swathes of the country blacks out for months during a cold winter many will die. That is not a good solution.