alt Hacker NewsRight, as long as you specify “without energy storage”, renewables “can’t work alone,” even though energy storage is included in most common sense definitions of “renewables”
Thankfully, energy storage is being deployed worldwide, so this is a moot point, and renewables can and will replace fossil fuel electricity generation.
We're going to need more than grid-scale batteries to electrify trucks, ships, and long-distance airplanes. PaulDavisThe1st is right about that! Solar-powered fuel production from CO₂ is one possibility.