>>14378163>If anyone cares to reply to my effort post, why should energy generated by a "renewable" thing be more difficult to store?Because we don't store power from traditional power plants (be it nuclear, coal, gas, etc) but they can produce power on demand and decrease their power output when there is no demand.
So the principle with a coal plant is very simple, you have a certain amount of power you can generate, your capacity, and you have a bunch of coal furnaces that turn water into steam and power the turbines that turn that power into electricity. Need more power? Throw more coal into the fire. Need less power? Stop adding coal and vent the excess steam. Problem solved. This principle applies to most power generated, be it coal, gas, nuclear, hydroelectric, etc.
With solar and wind power generation is not really controllable, you can't turn on the sun a little or make the wind blow on demand so you need to store the power you are generating when no one is using it so you can supply that power when there is a demand for it. This is necessary because you might have high demands for power at times when there's little wind or sun (think winter/fall 2021-2022 in Germany).
The overall problem with this is that there is no practical way of storing that much power, the cost of this is rarely calculated into the cost of "green" energy. So the solution is to build a whole bunch of gas power plants and basically use them to supply power whenever solar and wind can not. Obviously high gas prices are also partly a result of this.
