Solar power production undercut by coal pollution

Each year, some of the power solar could have produced is blocked by aerosols.

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[legoKill101]

Oh God don't give trump any ideas...

 

[evanTO]

Put another way, as fossil fuel use goes down those that have already installed solar will see a slight boost.

 

[ShortOrder]

Oh God don't give trump any ideas...

Just tell him the coal pollution makes the wind blow harder

 

[ERIFNOMI]

bUt ClEaN bEaUtIfUl CoAl

God, just kill me already.

 

[Lexus Lunar Lorry]

The impact of aerosols, however, is not evenly distributed. In China, the researchers estimated that aerosols were reducing solar production by 7.7 percent overall and offsetting anywhere from a third to half of its annual growth.

This is how we will beat China! MAGA will roll coal over all of their precious solar panels! USA! USA! US..hack hack cough cough

 

[Nora Lenderbee]

This is how we will beat China! MAGA will roll coal over all of their precious solar panels! USA! USA! US..hack hack cough cough

Make America Gasp Again.

 

[Fatesrider]

I won't dispute that cutting out the amount of sunlight that hits solar panels will reduce output.

But there is actually a flip side to this issue: There's often more output than can be used.

At least here in SoCal, solar produces far more energy than can be used. The excess needs storage, and that lags in a lot of areas. So even with less solar production, it's too much in some places to be used or stored due to a lack of battery capacity.

If we could figure out how to store our excess energy in coal and get it back cleanly, then that'd be a thing. But given the perverse and demented way the current regime thinks, they'd ban that, too...

 

[bjn]

I won't dispute that cutting out the amount of sunlight that hits solar panels will reduce output.

But there is actually a flip side to this issue: There's often more output than can be used.

At least here in SoCal, solar produces far more energy than can be used. The excess needs storage, and that lags in a lot of areas. So even with less solar production, it's too much in some places to be used or stored due to a lack of battery capacity.

If we could figure out how to store our excess energy in coal and get it back cleanly, then that'd be a thing. But given the perverse and demented way the current regime thinks, they'd ban that, too...

Just copy Australia and shove a battery in every home.

 

[Totally Radical Liberal]

I won't dispute that cutting out the amount of sunlight that hits solar panels will reduce output.

But there is actually a flip side to this issue: There's often more output than can be used.

At least here in SoCal, solar produces far more energy than can be used. The excess needs storage, and that lags in a lot of areas. So even with less solar production, it's too much in some places to be used or stored due to a lack of battery capacity.

If we could figure out how to store our excess energy in coal and get it back cleanly, then that'd be a thing. But given the perverse and demented way the current regime thinks, they'd ban that, too...

How about using the excess supply to run a desalination plant? Unless California doesn't need potable water, I guess.

 

[l8gravely]

I saw we build a coal plant next to Mar-a-lago and see how long it takes for Trump to ask for it to not be there....

 

[ERIFNOMI]

Just copy Australia and shove a battery in every home.

I believe they're doing that in California.

 

[iollmann]

Can I sue local coal plants for lost production?

 

[iollmann]

If we could figure out how to store our excess energy in coal and get it back cleanly, then that'd be a thing.

According to the government there are now batteries. Who knew? Amiright?


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