clownboy
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Re: White House announces plan to train 50,000 people, including veterans, to install
Well, the substations already do on that last. Really, we're still using the same tech we developed a couple thousand years ago for storage. We've barely improved on it. And transmission is a nightmare. 47% loss in transmission.
oil coal and gas are already used,the three green energies would be used to reduce the primary sources of energy.
but at this time your right,they cant run anything by themselves hardly.like i said with solar,alot of those using it are people with small cabins,those people find a 4k system with a battery bank cheaper than running power lines to the middle of nowhere.but even those people still have gas or diesel generators as a few cloudy days could kill their power.
palm springs cali got it right,they use windmills,and gas generators,when the windmills fail to generate enough power,the gas generators pick up the slack.
and yes storage is a major problem,with a small house deep cycle batteries could be used with no problems,but for lets say a city,there is no efficient way to store that much power,and i cant see a cities power plant stocking 20 million deep cycle batteries either.
Well, the substations already do on that last. Really, we're still using the same tech we developed a couple thousand years ago for storage. We've barely improved on it. And transmission is a nightmare. 47% loss in transmission.