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RE: Impact of Solar Eclipse on Solar Energy in California
Well thats conclusive proof of the lack of reliability of solar right there, every few hundred years you are going to get a few minutes of reduced capacity, better start burning coal immediately!
Hehe, that is exactly the argument some people were making.
Sometimes I like to imagine a world where we did live off of solar and wind only, where you had to quickly think if there was enough energy right now to do what you wanted.
Apart from heating requirements, it really would not be that bad, very few things that we have in our modern life need to be available 24/7/365.
I agree! When we do get close to all solar, wind, and battery storage; it may come close to that with deciding what you want to use when energy is super cheap (maybe 10:00 - 14:00) and what you want to do when it is much more expensive (maybe 17:00 - 5:00). IoT and programmable appliances will make it pretty easy to schedule the dishwasher, clothes dryer, etc. The demand-response company, OhmConnect, that I think I've posted on, already has the ability to automatically adjust (for users who have opted in) smart thermostats and other devices (like car chargers) when demand is high.
Right the tech exists but there is no infrastructure to bind it together.
On electricchain.org we have built solar datalogger that put generation data into the solarcoin blockchain, so we can get real time generation data from all sizes of solar installs.