Musing on Power Grids using Renewable Energy
Something I've been thinking about: As many parts of the world expand to make use of Solar and Wind power, we'll still need more traditional power plants to keep things running at night. This would coincide with higher carbon emissions at night (vs during the day) in the future.
If the carbon emissions of a city through the week is enough to cause distinct week vs weekend weather patterns, I wonder how that would change things? 
Musing on Power Grids using Renewable Energy
That would still be roughly 10 - 14 hours a day of reduced use, though... that would still make a sizeable impact on oil and coal usage/pollution.
re: Musing on Power Grids using Renewable Energy
@JulieSqveakaroo @mawr too bad power transmission halfway across the world is infeasible
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re: Musing on Power Grids using Renewable Energy
@Felthry @mawr
Sadly... yeah...
I still have high hopes for geo-thermal, since that doesn't reqvire a day/night schedule, and doesn't produce the waste that nuclear does... but we're running out of time, and anything is better than just keeping the coal and oil burning.