Forgive me for butting in, but I beg to disagree. You say batteries are needed to store the power? Maybe, but I just think you see the small picture in terms of personal use. If one person for every hundred thousand has solar or wind generated property, then sure, they would need to store the energy for a "Rainy Day".
Those folks aren't generally on the grid. Now you say that you are tied to the grid. Do you successfully sell your excess to the power company or are you in that on and off again with your mistrust for authority?
Now, just imagine for a second, say a million people hooked to the grid with wind and solar. Just because it's cloudy here doesn't mean it isn't sunbeams all out 50 miles from here with people overproducing electricity at a capacity enough to feed the cloudy people.
It get's a little more hairy when you consider dense populations but I hope you get my drift.
What really needs to be upgraded is the power grid itself. Could you imagine all the flagrant sunshine being transmitted from California this year to places where it was shitty and the power went down?
Forget the pipelines, let's transmit electricity underground across the country.
And wind blows, wether you feel it on the ground or not. The higher you go the more windy it gets and that's just mother nature moving the jet stream. That's why the turbines they build these days are so large. A person in their backyard could not achieve anything like that but would be able to suck off the people that could.
If we were all on the same grid and shared the same electricity without having to cook another piece of coal it could work. Of course we would still need plants with capability to go to that option if necessary but between nuclear, nat gas, hydro an thermo there should be an amount of redundancy.
It's not a dream that isn't here yet, it's here and now and we've been trying to tell you all for years but most people right away scream socialism and complain that they need more batteries so they can suck more power than their neighbor.
I know it's never going to change, but saying that it's not doable because the wind doesn't blow on the surface or it is cloudy today is a very weak excuse for someone who isn't a doomsday prepper.
Sod Bless Capitalism!!!!
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