04-08-2022, 05:38 AM
The thing that is often overlooked with this whole power thing is its availability.
The sun doesn't shine for 24 hours.
The wind doesn't blow for 24 hours.
What do you do in the meantime? You need some HUGE batteries to cope.....and then we start into our battery debate again.
What happens if we put all our eggs into the solar basket and there is a volcano, or even an asteroid that plunges a city, state, country into darkness for days on end? Remember the volcano that shut down all of europe a few years ago?
Nuclear works, just like coal, whenever you need it too.
The sun doesn't shine for 24 hours.
The wind doesn't blow for 24 hours.
What do you do in the meantime? You need some HUGE batteries to cope.....and then we start into our battery debate again.
What happens if we put all our eggs into the solar basket and there is a volcano, or even an asteroid that plunges a city, state, country into darkness for days on end? Remember the volcano that shut down all of europe a few years ago?
Nuclear works, just like coal, whenever you need it too.