the coal power is meant to balance peak usages, and arent built to be on 24/7. when you have green power, its never 100% green because green energy options genwrally have slower ramp up periods for peak demand spikes, which usually natural gas is used, but coal is the cheaper alternative.
They used to, but that’s no longer quite true. The entire solar supply chain is in the state of Xinjiang, part of which conveniently is a desert. That is convenient for two reasons:
You can extract silicon from desert sand.
You can put multi-gigawatt solar farms in the desert.
(If you hear about human rights abuses connected to solar … Yeah, that Xinjiang supply chain is why.)
Wait, so China produces the majority of Solar Panels and batteries… with coal power? The fucking irony is ridiculous.
the coal power is meant to balance peak usages, and arent built to be on 24/7. when you have green power, its never 100% green because green energy options genwrally have slower ramp up periods for peak demand spikes, which usually natural gas is used, but coal is the cheaper alternative.
They used to, but that’s no longer quite true. The entire solar supply chain is in the state of Xinjiang, part of which conveniently is a desert. That is convenient for two reasons:
(If you hear about human rights abuses connected to solar … Yeah, that Xinjiang supply chain is why.)