Sunday, April 22, 2012

Two Birds With One Stone

With renewable energy you do not have to mine a source of energy and then ship it to a power plant and burn it. The source of energy is produced on site and immediately distributed. This tends to create a bit of a disadvantage: Your power plant won't be operating at an optimal capacity factor, and you have to build transmission lines out to the source since it is geographic-dependent. However, that challenge can be overcome. Renewable energy also is not always needed when it is produced and is sometimes wasted. The solution to all of this is to have renewable power companies, the produces of energy, sell their energy to an energy storage company, the distributors. That way, you can have a more predictable and dependable grid which takes in all sources of renewable energy like geothermal, hydroelectric, and solar, and is then able to store and then dependably store it then distribute it when it is actually needed. Collectively, this will make renewable energy make a lot more sense by overcoming its incurable indeterminacy.

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