The continent is failing to adapt to a renewables boom
  • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    6 days ago

    sell it to who? This is just like saying you’ll just find shelter under another tree when enough rain has started making it through the leaves of the one that’s sheltering you now.

    • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      And that’s why it’s currently a problem. There’s not enough buyers, and not enough capability to switch supply in and out.

      Without the price incentives to build large scale storage, it hasn’t been done. The problem is that there is a delay between needing the storage, and it actually being built at scale.