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Lightfire228@pawb.social 4 days agoI said
solar and wind are intermittent and therefore not ideal for dealing with real-time grid demand
The grid has to meet demand in real time. You can’t make the wind start blowing within a few seconds to ramp up supply, and battery technology isn’t capable of storing enough juice to handle this either
That’s why the grid uses different power sources, each with different response times, each serving a different purpose
- Nuclear has slow reaction time, so is used to handle the bulk of daily power
- Then natural gas and coal have faster reaction times, and can be used to fill in as demand varies minute to minute
davidagain@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Australia installed battery farms made from of EV batteries to cope with the discrepancies between supply and demand.
You can’t turn the wind on when it’s calm, but you can turn wind turbines off, and solar still generates power on dull days, just less.
Oversupply of cheap clean green energy is the win. Right wingers can fuck right off with the coal firing.
Anyway, you could have written something more balanced from the start instead of leading with the contextless FUD like some maga nut or petrochemical shill would.