I agree with the above post. Solar/wind + storage should be augmenting/replacing baseline power, not peakers. Peakers are needed to fill in the gaps that come from intermittent demand, or drops in supply.
A couple of points.
1) From the article, their current air pollution is the motivating factor, not climate change. This makes sense when you consider that people are more likely to react to an immediate threat than a distant one.
2) So they are winning... who cares? 'Losing in leadership' is only important to alpha mindsets that can't turn off the 'need to lead'. Much of the technology they are using is derived from US research anyway. We can let them 'win' and then copy the best ideas back here. In that way, it makes better economic sense to let them take the risks and then join in after they've found a path forward.
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I agree with the above post. Solar/wind + storage should be augmenting/replacing baseline power, not peakers. Peakers are needed to fill in the gaps that come from intermittent demand, or drops in supply.
A couple of points. 1) From the article, their current air pollution is the motivating factor, not climate change. This makes sense when you consider that people are more likely to react to an immediate threat than a distant one. 2) So they are winning... who cares? 'Losing in leadership' is only important to alpha mindsets that can't turn off the 'need to lead'. Much of the technology they are using is derived from US research anyway. We can let them 'win' and then copy the best ideas back here. In that way, it makes better economic sense to let them take the risks and then join in after they've found a path forward.