Just How Cheap are Wind & Solar?
Decouple
English - September 29, 2023 00:54 - 1 hour - 74.3 MBPolitics News Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Muckraking physicist and data scientist Aidan Morrison has thrown doubt on the oft repeated mantra in Australia that wind and solar are the lowest cost option for a clean energy transition. He discovered that the modelling used to justify these claims leaves out the massive investments in storage and transmission required to balance the system treating them as sunk costs. See Aidan’s own excellent video deep diving the topic here. https://youtu.be/W-GwnPWTwmU?si=VmM98aSuYGC2Z32o