alt Hacker NewsSo then they are wrong. The last 5-10 percent is the hardest part and it's the one consumers complain the most about! You can't run a factory on 90% power availability
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whynotmaybe • today at 3:34 PM
You can run anything on 90% renewable and anything else for the remaining 10%.
As my house is on hydro-energy and everything is electric, I'm currently on 100% renewable and majors factories around me are the same.
Yes, hydro isn't available everywhere, just like solar or wind isn't, but wherever it's possible, we should have it.
IshKebab • today at 3:29 PM
Sure but I think if solar really did provide 90% of the world's electricity it wouldn't be inaccurate to say it powered the world.
(Heating and transport are harder to solve of course.)
zekrioca • today at 3:54 PM
Yes, one can. The issue is that it requires synchronization.
But you _can_ run it on 90% solar plus 10% fossil fuels to achieve 100% power availability, which is what GP and the article suggest.