On: A near 100% renewables grid is well within reach, ...

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I guess we can just shut off unimportant things like refrigeration and life support at night.

[olddustytrail → thrown_22]

No, you buy expensive electricity at night and cheap solar during the day. You were about to explain to me how buying the expensive electricity all the time worked out cheaper than that. Have you thought it out yet?

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Where do you store the electricity? The world's largest battery can run the grid it's attached to for about 10 minutes.

[olddustytrail → thrown_22]

Who said anything about storage?

And battery storage on a grid is not for running the whole grid for any time.

Seriously, you don't understand any of this. Stop assuming you do and try asking some intelligent questions instead.