> If you are arguing to stop subsidies for fossil fuels, sure! Let's do it.
I'll be all in on that. That's not my point at all.
> Without any subsidies and with externalities accounted for, fossil fuels would be even more expensive than renewables.
Wow, slow down there.
First, subsidies are a confounding factor. I don't care who signs the check, we're all paying for it in one way or another. Let's just assume we join all of the worlds wealth into a big pot somehow, and can magically distribute it as we desire.
Externalities are important though, because we will pay them anyway, so that one counts.
LCOE for solar and wind is lower, but we can't build a whole network with wind and solar because they're unreliable. The "popular" (hyped) solution is storage, but storage is so expensive that the LCOE for Solar/Wind + Storage blows us through the roof again!
I'd love to have some real solution, a renewable and reliable source with LCOE similar to natural gas, but until we have one we need to accept the fact that natural gas is in our mixture of energy sources is a good thing.
I'll be all in on that. That's not my point at all.
> Without any subsidies and with externalities accounted for, fossil fuels would be even more expensive than renewables.
Wow, slow down there.
First, subsidies are a confounding factor. I don't care who signs the check, we're all paying for it in one way or another. Let's just assume we join all of the worlds wealth into a big pot somehow, and can magically distribute it as we desire.
Externalities are important though, because we will pay them anyway, so that one counts.
LCOE for solar and wind is lower, but we can't build a whole network with wind and solar because they're unreliable. The "popular" (hyped) solution is storage, but storage is so expensive that the LCOE for Solar/Wind + Storage blows us through the roof again!
I'd love to have some real solution, a renewable and reliable source with LCOE similar to natural gas, but until we have one we need to accept the fact that natural gas is in our mixture of energy sources is a good thing.