But let’s at least be honest about the necessity to massively overbuild intermittent sources (and expensive storage) to provide reliability when we compare $/MWh.
An honest discussion of that should probably include the ecological and health impacts of coal, and the ongoing dramatic decline in cost to add new solar/wind capacity. It's cheaper even factoring in variable production, and this battery project is part of how you address intermittency.
I mean, you're commenting on a post about a battery which can help to solve this problem (albeit this battery alone probably doesn't entirely solve it).
Plenty of oil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Hawaii
Coal was only a small percentage of the energy mix in the last decade.
Can we move on from the tired old "haha idiots forgot about night time" slam on renewable energy yet?
> Can we move on from the tired old "haha idiots forgot about night time" slam on renewable energy yet?
Not likely. Identity politics never goes out of style.
That is not idpol
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Well, it’s a bad argument made that way, I agree.
But let’s at least be honest about the necessity to massively overbuild intermittent sources (and expensive storage) to provide reliability when we compare $/MWh.
An honest discussion of that should probably include the ecological and health impacts of coal, and the ongoing dramatic decline in cost to add new solar/wind capacity. It's cheaper even factoring in variable production, and this battery project is part of how you address intermittency.
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> Can we move on from the tired old "haha idiots forgot about night time" slam on renewable energy yet?
maybe if they move to volcano power plants
I mean, you're commenting on a post about a battery which can help to solve this problem (albeit this battery alone probably doesn't entirely solve it).
Do you think batteries stop working at night?