I'm aware the grid can balance some of this load, perhaps with wind or solar arrays further away. But solar itself has externality costs of intermittency which the grid has to pick up.
I'm aware the grid can balance some of this load, perhaps with wind or solar arrays further away. But solar itself has externality costs of intermittency which the grid has to pick up.
Nuclear is good! We should deploy it as fast as we can! That happens to be quite slow relative compared to our deployment of utility scale solar and wind. Let's go faster if we can. But for heavens' sake, nuclear advocates should, well, advocate for nuclear, not badmouth the clean energy coming online today at grid scale.
[1] https://microgridknowledge.com/solar-plus-storage-prices-hec... [2] https://cleantechnica.com/2019/09/11/la-8minute-solar-ink-lo... [3] https://www.environmentalleader.com/2019/12/gemini-nevada-so...
Agreed though it is exciting to see the cost drops - but it's important to compare like for like wrt to intermittency.
WRT intermittency, the point of this conversation is that hydrogen generation is a solution: over-provision and generate combustible hydrogen (or ammonia, etc) that can be used later and / or where electricity performs poorly: long haul transport and high-temperature industrial processes. Many links on @ChrisGoodall2's excellent "Carbon Commentary": https://us9.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=a336c39e55a6260d59a...
[4] https://www.barrons.com/articles/warren-buffett-berkshire-ha...