The deluded few still promoting the total transition to wind and solar as ‘inevitable’ are being pounded by reality, on a daily basis.
Dead calm weather is a thing; sunset is a thing. Both phenomena are inevitable, ergo, there is no way wind and solar can ever amount to meaningful power sources.
Proponents have been reduced to babbling about mythical mega-batteries, non-existent pumped hydro and (equally non-existent) so-called ‘green’ hydrogen which, collectively, are meant to be a cheap as chips and practically instant fix to the hopeless intermittency of wind and solar power.
The argument appears to run along the lines that, had we only thought a little bit harder about it, we would have solved the problem from the outset by adding a little “storage”.
Here’s the news: there is no such thing as the grid-scale storage of electricity and the laws of physics and economics mean there never…
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