>>11513676Well wind does blow at night some of the time for one. Water, biomass and geothermal work at night as well.
As for energy storage, there‘s a lot of solutions that can supplement each other. Although ultimately the way to store most of the energy is probably going to be hydrogen/synthetic methane.
The beauty of producing your own methane is you get to keep using your gas infrastructure and plants. There‘s still open questions with that. Keeping extra plants just for a few days in the year is probably not going to be cheap. As is overproducing enough electricity to cover the losses of producing so much methane.
It‘s not impossible in theory though. But the road there is long, arduous and expensive.
>>11513747Any building kills birds. And I‘d rather a few birds die than continue to support shitholes like Russia and Arabia. I really don‘t know how we put up with this being the status quo for over half a century.
As an aside, nuclear can be nice while its running. But building them can take ages, costing billions up front and even more after they are done. Will be interesting to watch France in the next 10-20 years when they have to scrap all their reactors in the country and rebuild. I don‘t mind nuclear. If this is what works for countries, they can go for it. But I don‘t think it‘s a silver bullet by any means.
Still waiting for fusion. But ITER has been sabotaged with hippie bullshit since back in the 80s. So if climate change is what you want to prevent, fusion will be too late unless china or one of the startups pulls through.
I‘ll stop talking about energy politics now.
