Reply #4: Storage is best measured in watthours. [View All]

[kristopher]

And while it is a factor, it isn't the central concern your post makes it out to be. That is a canard pushed by fossil fuel/nuclear proponents to denigrate the possibilities offered by both solar and wind.

What experience is showing us is that there are a variety of *generation and storage strategies* that will move into their appropriate niches as the demand for storage develops. The conceptual problem you present is one similar to that raised when someone says that 10,000 square miles of solar panels can provide all of our power. When looked at as a monolithic block like that the goal seems overwhelming and undesirable. However when placed in the context of other things related to land use like building roof area, roads or farms the nature of the challenge takes on a very different shade of complexity.