Huh, learn something everyday. I think solar and wind can be great supplemental power sources. Especially at the residential level, as a way to cut power grid usage and a backup when the grid goes down. But there really is no cost effective batteries for home home use right now (I think Tesla has one but is somewhere near $80k last I checked.)
If you dig a little into home power systems, there some absolutely heroic battery bank systems some home owners have put together back in the 80's and 90's.
I've spoken to politicians in my Canada and a lot of them are understanding.
On a grand scale it's more effective to just subsidize the use of more efficient appliances and have demand control, demand is a killer on grids, it's why they charge such penalties for demand spikes and incorrect power factor.
I've consulted with clients who've been able to say 500k a year because they installed a 100k capacitor bank that reduced their power factor error. the ROI on that is way way way more effective than subsidizing solar or wind to generate more.
Our grid is ridiculously inefficient, inductive loads namely motors have such an impact on this. It's easier to not generate in the first place than it is to add generation.
Nuke and water should be baseload, wind and solar can be good with battery storage, wind is actually amazing if you can build it tall enough (at a certain height the wind blows constantly, at that point it's as reliable as nuke and water, like in the north sea for Denmark and Germany), and gas and coal can be a backup for demand spikes since it only takes a few minutes to get them online compared to nuke, nukes take a week to change their output capacity.
Huh, learn something everyday. I think solar and wind can be great supplemental power sources. Especially at the residential level, as a way to cut power grid usage and a backup when the grid goes down. But there really is no cost effective batteries for home home use right now (I think Tesla has one but is somewhere near $80k last I checked.)
If you dig a little into home power systems, there some absolutely heroic battery bank systems some home owners have put together back in the 80's and 90's.
I've spoken to politicians in my Canada and a lot of them are understanding.
On a grand scale it's more effective to just subsidize the use of more efficient appliances and have demand control, demand is a killer on grids, it's why they charge such penalties for demand spikes and incorrect power factor.
I've consulted with clients who've been able to say 500k a year because they installed a 100k capacitor bank that reduced their power factor error. the ROI on that is way way way more effective than subsidizing solar or wind to generate more.
Our grid is ridiculously inefficient, inductive loads namely motors have such an impact on this. It's easier to not generate in the first place than it is to add generation.
Nuke and water should be baseload, wind and solar can be good with battery storage, wind is actually amazing if you can build it tall enough (at a certain height the wind blows constantly, at that point it's as reliable as nuke and water, like in the north sea for Denmark and Germany), and gas and coal can be a backup for demand spikes since it only takes a few minutes to get them online compared to nuke, nukes take a week to change their output capacity.
ok nerd rant over lol.