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The decent answer is, simply, that storage will be built when there is enough renewable capacity to charge it from. Storage is technically trivial. Building it
by ncmncm 4y ago
The decent answer is, simply, that storage will be built when there is enough renewable capacity to charge it from.
Storage is technically trivial. Building it all will be a big civil engineering job, but we have plenty of civil engineers.
- jules 4y agoThat's magical thinking. Let's start with the obvious question: what kind of storage would that be? Remember, your argument against nuclear was price. Have you run the napkin math on your preferred choice of storage?
- BurningFrog 4y agoWhat is this trivial energy storage tech I've never heard of?
- fragmede 4y agoPumped hydro, probably. There are implementation details that make it tricky in practice, but those are less technical and more political in nature.
- BurningFrog 4y agoPumped hydro works great if you happen to have a dam-able river that environmentalists don't care about. Those do exist, but I'd estimate 90% of the world don't have them.
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago> The decent answer is, simply, that storage will be built when there is enough renewable capacity to charge it from. In your fantasy land a housing crisis is impossible! The decent answer is that housing will be built there are enough construction materials to build them from. So a housing shortage will never happen. What, Britain has housing shortage? Did they run out of clay to make bricks? Did they run out of buyers? Did they run out of money, while housing prices rose 10x? Did they run out of Land while 97% of the land is not built on? what could it be?
- ncmncm 4y agoDo you even read what you write? You make no sense.