[ExI] Wind, solar could provide 99.9% of ALL POWER by 2030

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Sat Dec 15 17:22:03 UTC 2012


On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:59 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> The key to making ground based solar and wind power more practical is that
> we need to be way more tolerant of possibly severe but temporary shortages.

Shortages in *local production*.  As the report noted, storage
helps get around this.  So does having a transmission grid, so
if (say) San Jose's got clouds w/low wind but Los Angeles has
sun, they can ship energy up north, and vice versa when
necessary.



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