It would be nice if we didn't link to sites with a paywall.
You know... so that everyone here is able to read the content and discuss it instead of it being limited to a subset of HN participants.
You know... so that everyone here is able to read the content and discuss it instead of it being limited to a subset of HN participants.
The reason we don't ban paywalled sites is that (a) there are standard workarounds for most paywalls, and (b) banning the WSJ, NYT, New Yorker, Economist, etc. would diminish the quality of HN.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8777971
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/will_new_obstacles_dim_hawaiis_...
To get filled in a little bit more on the background.
or use this link : https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Hawaii+Wrestles+With+Vaga...
Here's the gist of it:
"With 21% of its power now coming from renewable sources like wind turbines and solar panels, Hawaii has become a laboratory for those intent on reinventing the grid. A new law mandates that renewables supply all of the state’s electricity by 2045.
But Hawaii’s grid is already running into problems with its heavy helping of rooftop solar and other carbon-free renewables. Among them: sudden swings in the output of solar and wind, which force the state’s main utility to scramble to try to keep the overall supply of power steady."
Honestly I think Germany is a far better place to look at solar and the problems associated with it because they have fewer hours of sunshine and many more people, so their scale and storage problems are presumably that much greater.
They would have to build LNG terminals, pipelines, and gas fired power plants on each island in order to use natural gas as a quickly dispatchable source of electric power.
Each island in hawaii has it's own small electric grid. The challenge for Hawaii is running small grids with high percentages of uncontrollable generation.
All of Europe is interconnected, so Germany can install as many solar panels that don't get any sunshine as they want and it is only ever going to be a sliver of the total generation on the system. The price of electricity in Germany is also 29 cents / kwh, 2nd highest in europe. That doesn't make it seem like a good model to me.