If you have natural gas on the cheap, then sure. What the Chinese have is coal. What many countries have is coal. Unless they want to run down their forex reserves, that's what they're going to use.
www.the-independent.com
Coal is only good for base load, you can't balance the grid with it.
Of course you can.
www.nature.com
All that report does is claim its possible, it does not get into the how. Coal-fired steam turbines are not easy to turn on or off, they are not as throttleable as gas turbines, can they do it? Probably. But it is not the ideal method of regulating power and only makes sense in China because they have a surplus of coal plants.Of course you can.
They're already doing it in China.
Repositioning coal power to accelerate net-zero transition of China’s power system - Nature Communications
A study on China finds that repositioning coal power from a baseload resource to a flexibility provider can accelerate the net-zero transition by mitigating stranded assets, enabling greater integration of renewables, and reducing transition costs.
Garbage from two biased organisations.Renewables are expensive and ultimately may be unaffordable.
Rising Bills, Bad Blame: What’s Really Driving Electricity Prices
Green activists and their political allies are working overtime to try to blame rising electricity bills on President Trump —…www.instituteforenergyresearch.org
Reckless Renewables: What’s the Real Cost to Australians? - The Daily Declaration
Is climate change a catastrophe or is it a problem demanding a solution; is "Net Zero" the only answer; are renewables – like wind and solar – so reliable, clean, cheap, and secure; and if renewables are so cheap, why the heck is my power bill flying to the moon?dailydeclaration.org.au
So I am due some back pay? Never knew. Horrible people.
www.bbc.com
Again, click on my link and you see exactly how they go up and down in Germany every day....
www.bbc.com
That doesn't get around the two big failings of solar power:Perovskite: The 'wonder material' that could transform solar
Some say advances in perovskite solar cells mean we are on the brink of the next solar energy revolution. Others aren't so sure.
Heads up: new invention called batteries that store power...
Your head is up somewhere...
theconversation.com
bsgip.com
www.qff.org.au
arena.gov.au
I remember the same people who once told about the adbantages of a decentralized electricity production in Germany are now promoting a large net of ''Stromautobahnen'' (electricity highways) to transport the wind energy from the north to the south and the solar electricity from the south to the north.....
Speaking of farming and methane, shouldn't it also be possible to harvest lots of it from cattle farms?
So they don't exist? Made up fiction? Really?
They are growing rapidly beyond niche:
If one does a full, true comparison that also includes all the subsidies traditional non-renewable fossil fuels have enjoyed for decades and include the costs associated with the damage they produce, one will see that renewables aren't necessarily expensive. Moreover, when one considers that you don't have to feed fuel in continuously it gets better.
arstechnica.com
www.bbc.com
Home solar is, in the grand scheme of things, a complete waste of time and money. The installs only pay out with heavy government subsidies. Nobody would install or pay for one without those. The amount of energy produced is so miniscule as to be irrelevant.
