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Old 11-05-2017, 07:33 AM   #488 (permalink)
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Keep in mind three things: This is installed capacity. Not output. So the solar amount of the green area will average 1/5 and have a 5X peak at noon to what is shown . And the wind portion of the green will average 40% with random intermittentcy. Batteries are way too expensive and lack the availability to do anything to buffer this at a grid scale of this magnitude.
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And this is only electricity. Total energy use is 5 times this for agriculture, industrial, transportation, heat ect. much of which has no easy conversion from liquid fuel to electric.
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Despite our awareness of the consequences, fossil fuel use will still be many times our current rate for decades to come until we are forced to quit when availability gets scarce.