Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that there isn’t a current practical problem with solar / wind; my reason for my previous post is that I read Christian’s statement as implying that it is fundamentally physically impossible to rely on solar without being chronically exposed to outages, which simply isn’t true, but it is true that we still need to develop our technology and infrastructure to accommodate the dynamics that exist with solar power
To be clear, I am in favour of using nuclear power for precisely this reason, although it also seems that the problems with renewables will be taken care of by the free market fairly quickly as renewables make up a larger proportion of our energy consumption
We really don’t need to rely completely on solar and wind to avoid the climate change. The estimates of Ipcc includes solutions that also have nuclear phase out, it marginally increases the cost, a two years delay in the energy conversion costs us more.
I’m sorry for repeating this, but I feel that my point before was missed; the issues from 100% renewable energy sources are a fake problem.
They really have no consequences on these decisions, since it’s not what we are required to do in the short term.
My initial comment did speak about current technology.
they will more or less be quickly solved by the free market as renewable energy becomes a larger proportion of energy consumption
Free markets don’t to be good at producing the kind of batteries you need to have reserve capacity for your once-in-ten years weather event that has two weeks of less sun/wind then you would usually expect.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that there isn’t a current practical problem with solar / wind; my reason for my previous post is that I read Christian’s statement as implying that it is fundamentally physically impossible to rely on solar without being chronically exposed to outages, which simply isn’t true, but it is true that we still need to develop our technology and infrastructure to accommodate the dynamics that exist with solar power
To be clear, I am in favour of using nuclear power for precisely this reason, although it also seems that the problems with renewables will be taken care of by the free market fairly quickly as renewables make up a larger proportion of our energy consumption
We really don’t need to rely completely on solar and wind to avoid the climate change. The estimates of Ipcc includes solutions that also have nuclear phase out, it marginally increases the cost, a two years delay in the energy conversion costs us more.
I’m sorry for repeating this, but I feel that my point before was missed; the issues from 100% renewable energy sources are a fake problem.
They really have no consequences on these decisions, since it’s not what we are required to do in the short term.
My initial comment did speak about current technology.
Free markets don’t to be good at producing the kind of batteries you need to have reserve capacity for your once-in-ten years weather event that has two weeks of less sun/wind then you would usually expect.