Re:Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors
by dragonwriter on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @11:39PM
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> Demand is highly price inelastic and inversely correlated with the supply of renewables.
The first is dubious, the second is... highly location dependent.
Peak demand in California matches peak solar output pretty well; before solar was big, supply concerns focused on peak demand hours, in the afternoon; now they are in the evening because solar has made the highest gross demand time the time where there is the least concern for supply.
> No, but the labor cost of hooking up your pile of rocks battery will be impractical for almost everyone.
The labor cost of hooking it up isn't that bad, geothermal heat pumps aren't that costly.
Insulating the pile of rocks battery is probably the hard part.
The first is dubious, the second is... highly location dependent.
Peak demand in California matches peak solar output pretty well; before solar was big, supply concerns focused on peak demand hours, in the afternoon; now they are in the evening because solar has made the highest gross demand time the time where there is the least concern for supply.
> No, but the labor cost of hooking up your pile of rocks battery will be impractical for almost everyone.
The labor cost of hooking it up isn't that bad, geothermal heat pumps aren't that costly.
Insulating the pile of rocks battery is probably the hard part.