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You can see here [1] that on a time frame of 2000 to 2022 Germany is yet to replace reduction of nuclear generation (Kernkraft) with renewables. Construction of renewables in 2023 has only accelerated 50% relative to 2022 [2].
[1] https://www.tech-for-future.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/... [2] https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/installed_power/chart....
Only if you omit cost of energy storage infrastructure and grid upgrades necessary for VRE.
> Secondly, it's not a responsive source of electricity - so you can't modulate the output easily.
Repeated often by nuclear critics even though there's evidence out there of German nuclear modulating load within 24 hours.
> Fourthly, as we found last year, during heat waves rivers can run dry causing a shortage of water to cool the plants forcing them to go offline.
French powerplants did not go offline last summer, a few of them that lack sufficient cooling tower infrastructure had to eject hotter than usual water into rivers.
> that plan is out of the window
There hasn't been officially confirmed, soon there will be a report called "Power plant strategy 2026" that will give a better outlook as to what is gonna happen this decade.
That's not sufficient for pumped storage at scale, but Germany is mostly focusing on hydrogen for now.
Economic challenges of quickly building grid-scale battery storage , battery production for the entire globe, NIMBY's etc.
> Modern batteries don't burst into flame
they literally do
> the overwhelming bulk of storage is not batteries
Well overwhelming bulk is a high bar and storage is geography dependent. Germany f.e. can't build as much pumped storage as Australia and Australia built a large amount of battery storage vs PSH.
For comparison, it seems Germany uses nearly 2x more electricity than Australia and currently has about 10x less pumped storage (including wip) than what Snowy 2.0 will have alone.
They probably removed it because nobody was using it and they couldn't figure out how to teach people, while spending extra $ to add it into phones.
To people already preparing to explain how ridiculous that idea is, I know :)
It's more of a pipe dream. Just physically makes no sense to carry around 60kg of an ultra lightweight car (estimate taken from lightest Shell eco-marathon prototypes) instead of the 40kg of the heaviest ebikes. Not sure if there's any feasibility wiggle room.
It's cool to see someone's code is on the mars rover or in the artic storage. I can't care about achievements like "yolo" "galaxy brain" and "pull shark". I don't understand what information that conveys on a code collaboration platform.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg_Coopera...
https://www.indyautonomouschallenge.com/
Idk if it's going to be recurring, but they had a second race for CES22.
Q: How do i know if i have a good idea? A: If you have a good idea, you will know it.
Q: When will robots kill all humans? A: When the robots are more human than the humans.
All just my experience.
IMHO the analysis is muddied by the fact that most G7 countries decided to bail out their major Airlines during the pandemic. In case of Germany and Italy, those billions of spendings count towards a "fossil fuel commitment".
[0] https://learn.tearfund.org/-/media/learn/resources/reports/2...
I just think there's more to the story than we're getting. Impossible to tell for an outsider though.
I'm almost doubting my entire knowledge in the field now when all of a sudden everyone just accepts that "sensor fusion is hard" statement.