No, that’s totally irrelevant - on a large interconnected grid you can get past 75% renewables with basically no storage (South Australia does it as part of Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM)). No single generation type can cover 100% itself - even when things were largely coal, it was always required to have hydro or gas dispatchable generation for peaking, and this wasn’t counted in the cost or any other statistic of those plants… it’s just a reality of running a grid.
In the same way, fugitive emissions are usually ignored for gas (even though the case is far stronger than yours for including them as part of the lifecycle analysis), and oil exploration, refinery, transport etc. emissions aren’t counted in car’s fuel economy.
The study in question is trying to measure a particular thing, and it does it appropriately.
In the same way, fugitive emissions are usually ignored for gas (even though the case is far stronger than yours for including them as part of the lifecycle analysis), and oil exploration, refinery, transport etc. emissions aren’t counted in car’s fuel economy.
The study in question is trying to measure a particular thing, and it does it appropriately.