# Balázs Fekete Back to [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/People/People|Lomborg People]] · [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/BjornLomborg-x-profile|@BjornLomborg]] · Topic: [[Topics/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate|Climate Change Science and Policy Debate]] **Role:** Hydrologist, City College of New York / CUNY ⚠️ (affiliation from memory) - Lead author of Fekete, Bacskó, Zhang & Chen (2023), "Storage requirements to mitigate intermittent renewable energy sources: analysis for the US Northeast", *Frontiers in Environmental Science* 11:1076830 ⚠️ (title and author list from search summaries; the paper itself was not opened). - It estimates storage equal to 22.4% (solar-only) and 24.9% (wind-only) of annual energy consumption. The authors call it a "rudimentary statistical analysis". Lomborg's "need 3 months" comes from these numbers. - See [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - BjornLomborg on Battery Storage Minutes vs Months (2026-10-25)|Battery Storage Minutes vs Months]].