California's Renewable Energy Problem

Why HN readers recommended it

Offered in energy and nuclear debates as a numbers-based walkthrough of renewable storage costs, though one commenter disliked its tone.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Real Engineering

Topic

renewable energy storage

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Because, Simpsons. I admit, it's only half joking. But it seems more and more nuclear + renewables (+ some carbon removal) is the only solution forward. For those interested why that might be look at this: [VIDEO]

• Thats is the only reason not counting infrastructure, storage, peak-usage logistics, winter-usage logistics. Oh, and the fact that weather is temperamental, not consistent, not under our control at all, or able to change to meet our demand. Oil and Gas already has infrastructure, and solves …

• When people talk about the cost of solar they ignore the price of batteries and underestimate the amount of batteries required. Watch this video about renewables in California[0]. The video mentions a study that would put the cost of energy storage required for California to …