But the issues of relevance here are: (a) whether you can have enough of it to avoid building more coal (current situation in Germany says «no»); (b) whether you can have enough of it to displace current coal; (c) whether you can have, store, and distribute, enough of it to meet future energy growth (especially in the developing world) and the conversion to an all - electric society; (d) whether you can run a
modern society without baseload
generation [answer: perhaps, perhaps not, but if yes, it requires a
complete reconfiguration of the way we manage electricity].