Green power needs more than just solar panels and wind turbines
Electricity grids themselves must be tweaked to cope
NO GOOD DEED, an old saying has it, goes unpunished. That is certainly true of the introduction of green energy. The unreliability of solar and wind power compared with that generated by fossil fuels is well known—and with it the concomitant need for storage facilities such as large battery packs to smooth things over.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Inertial frames”
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