Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ncmncm 1513 days ago
Solar panels are produced in many more places, now. (Former-Soviet) Georgia produces a very great number of them, for example, at exemplary prices.

There is plenty of sunshine most places if you can bank fuel during off-season. Finns will probably still need to import from the south or via transmission line if the wind is off -- as they have done for many decades on a more regular schedule.
1 comments
nyokodo 1513 days ago
> There is plenty of sunshine most places if you can bank fuel during off-season

Energy storage is woefully insufficient yet to cover days let alone seasons so that is a very big "if."

link
ncmncm 1513 days ago
You seem to be saying you think keeping liquid fuel in tanks does not qualify as storage. If that is what you mean, you will need to explain why you think that, because it makes no sense.

If you mean we have not yet built out as much storage as we will ultimately need, because we anyway haven't enough renewable generating capacity built out yet to charge it from, then yes we know. The solution to that is obviously to continue building out renewable generating capacity, and then storage for the excess.

link
nyokodo 1512 days ago
> You seem to be saying you think keeping liquid fuel in tanks does not qualify as storage.

I just misread what you wrote. I didn't see "fuel" and thought you were referring to other means of renewable storage. Fuel as an efficient and much less geographically limited means of storage makes a lot of sense.

link