GRID-SCALE Electricity Storage Can’t Save Renewables
Posted: February 8, 2019 Filed under: Energy Poverty, Failed Green Schemes, Green Agenda, Green Energy, Renewables, Solar, Taxpayer waste, Unreliables, Wind Farms | Tags: Climate Change, Energy Poverty, Failed Green Schemes, Fuel Poverty, Green New Deal, Renewable energy, renewables, Solar panels, Solar PV, unreliables, Wind Energy, Wind Farms, wind power 3 CommentsAMAZING how powerful ideology is to make otherwise intelligent people lose all sense of reason and common sense in the ruinous pursuit of windmills, solar panels and fairytale storage.
“You need storage to deal with lulls in wind generation that can last for several days, so the amount required would be impracticably large. And because this would only be required intermittently, its capital cost could probably never be recovered.
Wind and solar power are not available on demand and there are no technologies to make them so. Refusing to face these inconvenient facts poses a serious threat to our energy security”.
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No surprise there, but the points made deserve emphasis. No amount of ideology can defeat the realities of engineering and economics.
Engineer pours cold water on battery and hydrogen technologies – GWPF press release.
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A new briefing paper from the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) dismisses the idea that grid-scale electricity storage can help bring about a UK renewables revolution.
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