New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power - eviltoast
    • Zink@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      There’s an interesting point buried at the end of that article: electricity quality. With batteries in the loop, supply can scale with demand almost instantly, versus the time it takes for various types of power plant to adjust output.

      • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
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        I wonder if this has any impact on another piece of the puzzle, high voltage direct current (HVDC) which we need to transport electricity over large distances with minimal loss.

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        1 year ago

        There’s an equally buried link to a death by powerpoint that made me pray for a blackout before i could get anywhere close to understanding how that bar graph was constructed.

        I can’t vouch for the following being a necessarily better source, but this one seem a lot more upfront about some of their assumptions and sensitivities. In this adding storage to wind is seems to be +tens of dollars per MWh; a fair amount more than the +1-3 dollars per MWh shown in the cleantech article.
        https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/2023-levelized-cost-of-energyplus/

        So i’d like to know where these cheap battery cost assumption comes from - is it proven tech, available at scale , at that price?
        just seems a bit too good to be true.

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      Reading that… It basically seems to say that we can live with intermittent blackouts when wind and solar fail.