If you'd like to feel good about some numbers today:
The largest nuclear power plants in North America produce about four gigawatts of electricity, and that number tapers down quickly as they get smaller.
Globally, in 2023, the world deployed that much new wind power about every two weeks.
Today, right now, the world is deploying that much new solar energy every four days.
@mhoye I'll call bullshit on the renewable energy propaganda. Without mass long term storage like dual reservoir pumped hydroelectic or massive skyscraper sized battery arrays, renewables are ephemeral. They don't produce energy on demand, they produce it unreliably.
UNTIL that storage is constructed and deployed, and renewables can schedule power like regular hydro, natural gas, coal and nuclear, renewables cannot replace scheduled power generation. End of story.
@StephG_V2 @mhoye valid - capacity isnt the same as average output.
But nonetheless, insane overcapacity does reduce load in some circumstances.
( It also makes grid balancing worse).
That said, skyscraper sized batteries are not required, if most domestic users install batteries.
Batteries are actually improving at a decent pace now, and technologies such as sodium ion are now commercially available.
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