Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by LockAndLol 1919 days ago
Hmm.. How did Scotland solve storage?

From what I can read in the BBC article (1) there's still lots of work to do:

- cars still run on fossil fuels - heating accounts for 15% of emissions and uses gas - industries use fossil fuels to make materials

If that were all to become electric, would renewables be enough?

1: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-51088089

1 comments

They didn't solve storage. They produce a lot of wind power at certain times that they can't use and that's where the 90% comes from. The actual consumption of renewables is on the order of 40%-50%. Not nothing, but not 90% ... not even close.