Making Solar Power Competitive with Coal

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19. I have 2 lines of thought

Storage can be a canard.
We dont need storage systems to install solar and wind generation on a significant scale. Like the Atlantic WInd Connection, a 350 mile long HVDC offshore trunkline from NJ to Virginia that can support 1750 4Mw turbines. We can persue the goals of many white papers like the DOE 20% from wind in 20 yrs.

Storage can make renewables deliver 24/7
I call it non traditional baseload, if we build out 20% from solar in 20 years (100 gigs) and 20% from wind, and 25 gigs of storage, we now can cliam 25 gigs of non traditional baseload. We have about 23 older BWR fission reactors in the US, and that non traditional baseload can replace the generation capacity represented by the 23 BWR.

Right now storage is cool, but we need to focus on installing new renewable capacity, later on, storage comes in real handy.