Re:“Carbon Bombs” – Mapping key fossil fuel projects
by ben_w on Monday May 16, 2022 @04:18AM
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(Wind + batteries) wasn’t something I saw in what I linked to, so in this sub-thread I’m focussed on (PV + batteries) even though the link said the LCOE of onshore wind (by itself) was lower than that of coal.
For wind all those assumptions are wrong and thus won't work. You do not get a daily discharge where you can sell all the energy, you don't get a significant price change each day where you can utilize the price difference, and the capacity needed is a few orders of magnitude greater. Green hydrogen is one of the bigger bets people are hoping on, and right now it only cost several times more than nuclear. Except rather than using nuclear countries are burning fossil fuels because that is cheaper, and thus coal.