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peterfireflytoday at 7:30 AM1 replyview on HN

Non-nuclear renewables ("intermittables") need something else as back up. That is almost always natural gas.

That's been causing a lot of problems for Europe for years now.

There's the dependence on Russia, there's the dependence on the North Sea supply -- and the full-scale invasion started while the Danish fields were off-line -- and there's the dependency on LNG imports from actors that are either unreliable (the US) or far away (the US and Qatar) or both. LNG is also quite expensive.


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hedoratoday at 2:34 PM

Batteries help a lot. So do things like hydro and nuclear.

Of course, they also stretch strategic reserves.