How is it hard? It's difficult to build electrical generation these days and not go renewables because they're so cheap and fast to deploy.

It's not a total solution, but market forces wise everything says "build solar and batteries with your money". Governments practically don't need to do anything for this to be the default.

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ifwinterco an hour ago | parent [-]

Batteries don't solve the storage problem, but surely you know this.

China is pursuing the strategy you're describing, but there's a reason they're also building nuclear, they're increasing LNG infrastructure, they haven't phased out coal, and they've built a huge amount of oil storage.

Solar and wind can be part of that strategy but it's not so simple, otherwise people would do it

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watwut 44 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Bateries do solve storage problems. And yes, china energy strategy is based on wind and solar - their portion of China energy production is massively growing.

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locknitpicker 28 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> China is pursuing the strategy you're describing, but there's a reason they're also building nuclear, they're increasing LNG infrastructure, they haven't phased out coal, and they've built a huge amount of oil storage.

This opinion is rather simplistic. China is reported to have 60% of it's energy needs already supplied by renewable sources, but this transition creates different types of challenges such as preserving the power grid's inertia. Otherwise you might see yourself in a scenario such as the Spanish blackout. This means having in place strategies for fast response (gas) and baseline (hydro storage, nuclear) to prevent the scenario.

	▲	dv_dt 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		batteries are the fastest response power. gas is high maintenance, & bad capex as an intermittent source.