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> And we would buy ourselves time to solve energy storage coming from renewables. To my understanding, the intermittency/baseload problem is a much larger prob
by Klapaucius 6y ago
> And we would buy ourselves time to solve energy storage coming from renewables.
To my understanding, the intermittency/baseload problem is a much larger problem than people give it credit for. And I don't think it is safe to assume that we will eventually "solve energy storage", any more than we can count on eventually developing commercially viable fusion or any other still-pie-in-the-sky technologies.
Perhaps we will, but dangerous to count on.
- pfdietz 6y agoOf course we will solve energy storage. There are thousands of different battery chemistries, and large numbers of non-battery storage options (including ones like hydrogen that will do much better than batteries for long term storage). And even with very near term storage improvements, renewables will beat nuclear at providing base load. https://model.energy/ https://model.energy/