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Re:EU electricity production by country and source by thrown_22 on Monday November 07, 2022 @03:42AM (#33502994)
>It's simply not true we cannot store energy.

Which grid can store enough energy to run for a week if all renewables are offline?

Hint: there aren't any.

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Re:EU electricity production by country and source by Gibbon1 on Monday November 07, 2022 @03:49AM (#33503062)
Show me a week in the last two years when California's renewables didn't produce any power

https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html

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Re:EU electricity production by country and source by js8 on Monday November 07, 2022 @07:17AM (#33504853)
This is partly because massive energy storage (on the order of weeks) isn't really needed until you hit around 75% intermittent renewables (wind and solar), which is not yet the case anywhere in the world.

But the technology does exist, and it's gonna be deployed eventually.

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Re:EU electricity production by country and source by thrown_22 on Monday November 07, 2022 @03:30PM (#33511946)
>But the technology does exist, and it's gonna be deployed eventually.

[[citation needed]]

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