Talk to me when it's all battery and no gas. That's what nuclear would be replacing, not the renewables. Nuclear and solar/wind complement each other.
Nuclear and solar/wind complement each other
Not at all. Nuclear's terrible at ramping up for short term loads like in-fill gaps. Gas can be idle most of the time and then fired up as required. You don't want to be relying on it most of the time but for in-fill it's cheaper and better than nuclear.
So your grand plan is to keep carbon emitting sources until batteries can completely cover the baseload in all conditions? That's a non-solution.
Batteries, limited as they are, can certainly mitigate ramping issues with nuclear, though.
No, that's not it. Ultimately a mix of renewables will replace everything. Add say tidal and pumped hydro plus maybe some geothermal etc. and you don't need any non-renewable energy sources.
Talk to me when it's all battery and no gas. That's what nuclear would be replacing, not the renewables. Nuclear and solar/wind complement each other.
Not at all. Nuclear's terrible at ramping up for short term loads like in-fill gaps. Gas can be idle most of the time and then fired up as required. You don't want to be relying on it most of the time but for in-fill it's cheaper and better than nuclear.
So your grand plan is to keep carbon emitting sources until batteries can completely cover the baseload in all conditions? That's a non-solution.
Batteries, limited as they are, can certainly mitigate ramping issues with nuclear, though.
No, that's not it. Ultimately a mix of renewables will replace everything. Add say tidal and pumped hydro plus maybe some geothermal etc. and you don't need any non-renewable energy sources.