Jul 30, 2017 · 1 min read
You also did a very poor job concerning the EROEI of the various different renewable energy sources, including molten salt nuclear (the safer nuclear) and for best solar distribution (intercontinental powerlines).
Conventional PV gets between 7–10x the energy put into it (documented by NREL and others).
Batteries and their EROES (…stored) are also positive, but not yet cheap enough. They store (throughout their entire life) from only 3 to about 10x the energy required to make them (and that includes rough estimates about fuel for employees, etc).
So, the overall EROEI of solar and batteries is good for (edited for really bad phone spelling) summer but probably not in high latitude winters…
Less energy will create more problems.