> Scale that mindset problem up to a national grid and I imagine the challenge is the same.

Except that we have raw data there? The only question is how fast it grows, but since we're transitioning that's mostly a question of how fast you decommission fossil plants.

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entropicdrifter 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, agreed. It's a lot easier to be empirical when the scale of the requirements is quite literally unimaginable without just dealing with raw numbers.

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lazide 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Germany’s renewables rollout would like a word….

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hvb2 3 hours ago | parent [-]

If you mean what they started in the 90s? That's not what this is about. The conversation was about not being able to rightsize today.

Germany did jumpstart their market successfully but that was in a wildly different time. Want to talk about what a typical KWp of installed solar cost at the time?

Hindsight....

	▲	lazide 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Germany has only a tiny portion of their total energy needs on renewables - if we’re being honest about the definition of ‘total energy needs’. Like in the camper van scenario, if we include winter heating and transportation? Oh boy. It’s getting better, but if we’re really honest very far from the truth