Powering Canada for All Energy With no Nuclear or Batteries
Mark Jacobson
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Mark Jacobson
Professor-Civil & Environ Eng, Director-Atmos/Energy Program at Stanford U; Co-founder-Solutions Project & 100% Movement
Using existing hydropower for both peaking and baseload power may allow Canada to keep its grid stable every 30 seconds for three years without any nuclear, fossils, bioenergy, or even batteries upon full electrification of all energy sectors (transportation, buildings, industry, etc) and powering the electricity with Wind-Water-Solar
See how
https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/145Country/23-WWS-Canada.pdf
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1 年You start out mentioning hydro, but in your charts or looks like demand response might play an even bigger role in stability. I've wondered how flexible hydro really can be, because if it were to flex regularly between 100% and 0% output that would obviously have disastrous downriver effects. Are there general guidelines for that?
Just need Alberta and Sask. where 45% of our emissions are from...