...is find Sarah Conner for me...

Actually, it's not impossible at all. The UK grid needs about 3 times the amount of wind and much more solar and 2 terawatts of underground hydrogen storage.

There's enough salt caverns around the UK that can give it that storage, and the hydrogen can be manufactured via electrolysis when the wind and solar is producing too much. It's not very efficient, but renewables are cheap.

It CAN be done.

The Australian grid is rather different, it's a LOT closer to the equator and their renewables are a lot more consistent, so they need a lot less storage in percentage terms.

Not really, but the grid operator is basically the government for the grid, and they're highly incentivized to not fuck up. They're the ones that sent out the request for quotes.

FYI as of 2021 the UK had 1.3 GW(h) of battery storage on the grid:

https://www.solarpowerportal.c...

I'm not sure what the total storage is now, it's going to be over 1.5 GW(h) with this installation, and probably a lot more. Note that large batteries aren't needed, it's the total battery storage that's important.

The UK grid operator was particularly keen on getting batteries on it, because the HVDC interconnectors to the continent have been unreliable, and they tend to suddenly break with no warning. That has meant that the grid needs to have a couple of gigawatt of spinning reserve instead, particularly spinning overnight, but with enough batteries they can shut most of that down into hot standby.

The last outage the grid had, due to a lightning strike, they didn't quite have enough battery, and that meant they had to do load shedding and that caused chaos. They should have enough battery now to keep it up long enough if there's a repeat to get backup power running and avoid any load shedding.

The other thing these batteries can do is help smooth out the production curve. If we had enough batteries to smooth out the evening power demand, the CCGT gas turbines would be much more efficient. When they first start up they use about twice as much fuel per kWh until the second cycle kicks in. If they start up less, costs should go down. But we'd need a lot more batteries to make that work.

By all accounts, The Day the Clown Cried was never actually finished, even though most principle photography was completed.

It's using the key hanging next to the front door with a sign above it saying "HERE'S THE KEY TO THE FRONT DOOR! GO AHEAD AND USE IT TO COME IN THE HOUSE!"

And Covid vaccines.

But no, asking that scientific research results be repeatable is questioning SCIENCE itself!

Samsung is spending $17 billion to build a single fab in Texas.

Still, with everything running flat out, I'm sure TSMC can make use of the capacity.

It's not your place to question The Holy Vaccine Narrative!

Leave that to your betters in the ruling class...

...Hunter Biden is a crackhead in the pay of foreign interests?

That was a story American media companies suppressed because it was true and hurt the candidate they wanted to win.

We all know that the only "hate speech" that will be suppressed is speech that the ruling powers hate.

The belief that periodic natural disasters, which have plagued mankind from time to time throughout recorded history, is "climate change" is essentially a religious belief, though one that doesn't seem to deter the likes of Al Gore and Barack Obama from buying swanky mansions situated on beachfront property.

There is zero evidence that hurricanes today are more or less powerful than at other times in recorded history. Read up on Racer's Storm, a far more powerful and persistent storm than Ida which struck in 1837.

All this boils down to "Natural Disasters Suck." No shit. The "climate change" spin is just an attempt to shoehorn random weather events into The Narrative.