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Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by epgui on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @03:51PM (#30936708)
“current capacity” is indeed insufficient, but we’re talking about what ought to be in the future, not about what is in the present.
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Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by Georgelemental on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @04:14PM (#30936954)
The technology to do that at reasonable cost does not exist and likely won't be developed in the near future.
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Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by epgui on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:20PM (#30937551)
The technology does exist. The bottleneck is how fast we can ramp up mining and production of key metals.

Extraction of key metals from batteries (ie.: recycling) does need to be developed further, but in terms of total capacity, that is a bigger future concern than a present one.

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Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by adrianN on Thursday April 07, 2022 @12:40AM (#30940666)
What's a reasonable cost? Wind and solar are pretty cheap, and you can spend quite a bit on technology that you only need a couple of weeks of the year without doubling the average price.
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