228. Steven Koonin on what climate science tells us, what it doesn’t, and why it matters, based on his book Unsettled
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Grid Is a Fordable, Reliable and Low Emissions
If you want a grid that is a fordable and low emissions, wind and solar the way to go. The problem is, first of all, they're not very reliable. If you want it to be affordable and reliable, then you've got gas, coal, nuclear. But if you want to make that clean, you need to get rid of the fossil fuels. You need to have wind and solar. But then you need some what's called despatchable power - ways in which you can fill in the short fall when the wind and solar don't genera batteries. Pumped hydro is one possibility. On converting electricity into some chemical, hydrogen, by electro electralizing
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