Comment by Saline9515
14 hours ago
Solar can't produce electricity at night, it's hardly a a credible sole competitor if the power surge requires a constant power supply. Renewables are most of the time coupled with gas power plants to handle this.
14 hours ago
Solar can't produce electricity at night, it's hardly a a credible sole competitor if the power surge requires a constant power supply. Renewables are most of the time coupled with gas power plants to handle this.
You don't need solar to be 100% perfect to be useful
It's really a shame, a damned shame, that we haven't invented batteries yet.
Can you point me to a country-scale implementation of solar+batteries where electricity is affordable? If every country tries to do the same, what do you think will happen with the battery costs given the sheer size of the manufacturing and natural ressources extraction required?
California, while not a country, is basically the size of one and they have made significant progress with this strategy.
Why is this any different than the sheer size of manufacturing and natural resources to extract other forms of energy?
Oil, natural gas, coal also all take vast amounts of capital investment and resource extraction to implement.
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