[crimsoneer]

Alternatively, because nuclear power still works at night.

[coldtea]

If only we had some way to store energy

[mrmlz]

At scale.

[tfourb]

You mean like 27 Gwh of yearly installed capacity kind of scale? https://www.solarpowereurope.org/press-releases/new-report-e...

[Jensson]

Nice, that gets us enough battery to survive winters in 10 000 years.

[defrost]

Now linearly extropolate oil supply numbers from just prior to Ford's Model-T.

How many thousands of years pass before we can meet current 2096 oil demand?

[Jensson]

That is why we need to stop with oil quickly, yes. Nuclear will do that, and people will pick nuclear if the renewables aren't there yet when oil runs out, which it is close to doing today.