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Weird blanket statement to make, batteries are used in all kinds of things currently. The scale of batteries is already massive. The power system as it is was designed with fossil fuel in mind, so we can't just replace fossil fuel with batteries and call it a day, but that's no reason to not use it where we can. If we only used fossil fuel for the things renewable can't do than we'd extend our time having a planet long enough to make better renewable tech.
there are size issues with batteries and amount of energy that can be stored. These things do not scale in a linear manner and there are hard physical limits on what is actually possible
so? read the last part of my previous comment. we may not be able to do with renewable exactly what we are currently doing with fossil fuels but that doesn't mean we can't convert our system to one that can.
hospitals for example require a constant stream of energy that cannot be interupted there are many such important systems that for reasons to do with human lives cannot be stopped and started depending on how sunny/windy it is. The requirements for these alone outstip battery technologies ability to handle
Also far more people die per watt for fossil fuels than nuclear energy. by a very significant factor
I'm willing to have FF / nuclear power for things like hospitals if it really is not possible to ever power them renewably. that doesn't make renewable sources invalid.
I was never saying we shouldn't do everything we can on renewables I was just saying that as they alone aren't enough of the options available nuclear is the clear frontrunner by a wide margin.
renewable energy is important but it's not enough on it's own
battery technology struggles to scale that well.
Also very few people have died from nuclear incidents relative to any other means of producing power
Weird blanket statement to make, batteries are used in all kinds of things currently. The scale of batteries is already massive. The power system as it is was designed with fossil fuel in mind, so we can't just replace fossil fuel with batteries and call it a day, but that's no reason to not use it where we can. If we only used fossil fuel for the things renewable can't do than we'd extend our time having a planet long enough to make better renewable tech.
there are size issues with batteries and amount of energy that can be stored. These things do not scale in a linear manner and there are hard physical limits on what is actually possible
so? read the last part of my previous comment. we may not be able to do with renewable exactly what we are currently doing with fossil fuels but that doesn't mean we can't convert our system to one that can.
hospitals for example require a constant stream of energy that cannot be interupted there are many such important systems that for reasons to do with human lives cannot be stopped and started depending on how sunny/windy it is. The requirements for these alone outstip battery technologies ability to handle
Also far more people die per watt for fossil fuels than nuclear energy. by a very significant factor
https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
I'm willing to have FF / nuclear power for things like hospitals if it really is not possible to ever power them renewably. that doesn't make renewable sources invalid.
I was never saying we shouldn't do everything we can on renewables I was just saying that as they alone aren't enough of the options available nuclear is the clear frontrunner by a wide margin.
renewable energy is important but it's not enough on it's own