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Originally Posted by Duffman
Its still all theoretical! Germany still uses conventional sources for 85% of thier power, so they have proved nothing in that video.
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I suppose, insofar as anything that we haven't done yet is theoretical. That said, I'm pretty sure you can respond to this post, even if you still haven't done it yet, and it's as theoretical as what the German engineers have demonstrated.
That said, it's a lot less theoretical than fusion for instance, in that it's already been shown to work for the grid's requirements/profile on a smaller scale, in other words they follow the grid's demand, just w/ proportionally less of each renewable input, so all Germany would need to do is scale up renewables and implement the system for it to become reality. Similarly, even though you've only posted a few sentences that I've seen so far, while the idea that you could create more sentences is only theoretical, it's one of those theoretical things I think would have a high degree of success, just like an all renewable grid.
Course, it's expected that we would see quite a bit of opposition to something like that, since it uses resources that are free and not likely to exhaust themselves soon for all intents and purposes. Fossil fuel energy is very lucrative for those who own it, even if the rest of us have to pay for and deal with the externalized costs associated with it. A little over three trillion alone for oil, and probably around 10%, maybe more, of world GDP per year. If I was getting 10% of the world's wealth every year due to resources I controlled, I sure as hell wouldn't want something else butting in on my piece of the pie.