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LockAndLol on March 11, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years...

Hmm.. How did Scotland solve storage?

From what I can read in the BBC article (1) there's still lots of work to do:

- cars still run on fossil fuels - heating accounts for 15% of emissions and uses gas - industries use fossil fuels to make materials

If that were all to become electric, would renewables be enough?

1: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-51088089

macspoofing on March 11, 2021 [–]

They didn't solve storage. They produce a lot of wind power at certain times that they can't use and that's where the 90% comes from. The actual consumption of renewables is on the order of 40%-50%. Not nothing, but not 90% ... not even close.

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