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Originally Posted by Fuzz
They do show the massive scale of how difficult it is. I didn't realize there were chapters after the summary, I've been looking through. Chapter 3 shows graphs with yearly spending indicated, over what we spend now. The increases are staggering. For instance, solar needs to go from yearly spending of 115 to 237 billion a year for 30 years. So you can spend all that, but where do you put them? At some point you run out of places to build massive solar farms.
Same with wind Offshore spending needs to increase 10 fold, every year. Surely opportunity for offshore wind locations will be exhausted long before 30 years at a pace of 10x what we do now. Storage needs to increase 33x. Biofuel production by 43x. Sorry, but where are you growing these? Remember, that's per year additions for 30 years.
I'd be interested to see these numbers re-worked with the massive increase in nuclear. Nothing in this report feels achievable due to limits on space and reality. The dollar value is the most realistic part of it.
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I think solar is great, but given how slow the efficiency of the panels is improving, one does wonder how cost effective it really is.
Maybe to replace peaker plants on a small scale, etc....but large scale power production? I dunno.