> Are wind and solar just vanity projects?
Solar is great for lots of non-grid applications, such as places without a grid connection or satellites. The entire technology isn’t vanity.
Solar is great for lots of non-grid applications, such as places without a grid connection or satellites. The entire technology isn’t vanity.
>Anywhere near the equator the technology is going to totally replace all other generation within 20-30 years
20 years away in perpetuity..just like cold fusion.
If you are claiming that one needs base load power plants, ones that operate at very high capacity factor, that's wrong. A combination of intermittent power plants, and dispatchable power plants (including possibly storage) to fill in the gaps, would work just fine. There is no need for a steady demand to be supplied by power plants individually producing steady output. Base load supply can be synthesized from non-base load components.
> 20 years away in perpetuity..just like cold fusion.
Solar is already being installed at the many GW scale. Equating that to cold fusion is the height of dishonesty.