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It crops up because people give these absurdly misleading cost estimates for adding incremental wind power to the grid. You can’t have wind power without spendi
by parkingrift 4y ago
It crops up because people give these absurdly misleading cost estimates for adding incremental wind power to the grid. You can’t have wind power without spending money on an equivalent amount of reliable power, and no one wants to include those required costs in their estimates. This tends to dramatically understate the actual economics of wind.
- rgmerk 4y agoThere are plenty of studies of near-100% renewable energy grids and the electricity comes out similar to long-term wholesale trends (pre-Ukraine), even taking storage/transmission into account.
- parkingrift 4y agoLet’s see one for wind power, then. OP implies wind is an order of magnitude cheaper.
- rgmerk 4y agoHow about this one: https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/21-USStates-PDFs/21-USStatesPaper.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/21-U...