Q: Is California ready to turn to renewable energywind, solar, geothermalto provide base load electrical power?
Chu: No, it's not there yet. We need to solve the problem of energy distribution and energy storage before renewables becomes, for example, 50 percent of the base load electricity. There's no way it can become 50 percent until we have a mass-energy storage system or a huge international or national distribution system.
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This is what Chu said in 2009, and Chu would say the same today. This is what I say also - I agree with the above 100%.
You can't have renewables >50% if you either can't store the power, or you can't get power from the other side of the world. NEITHER one can we do today - so for the forseeable future; renewables are LIMITED to <50%. That doesn't mean we don't work on it. However, we have been working on it for decades already.
This is where your lack of scientific understanding limits your understanding of the entire process. Like your lack of understanding of the
2nd Law of Thermodynamics. You "think" that the 2nd Law isn't a big barrier, that we can "engineer" our way around it. That is WRONG, and if you understood science, you'd know it was wrong. We don't "engineer" our way around Laws of Physics; we have to obey them.
Otherwise, we could have all the energy we want; we just "engineer" our way around the Law of Conservation of Energy.
We don't need a supply of energy to tap; we'll just engineer things so that we make energy out of absolute nothing. Since nothing is our fuel source, and the song lyricists have told us for years that we have plenty of nothing, then we can have all the energy we want; all made out of nothing.
Of course, any intelligent reader here knows that is impossible. Well bypassing the 2nd Law and the other Laws of Physics that you eschew when I bring them up; is just as impossible.
PamW