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What electricity sources have you identified as acceptable for this? Proximity of e.g. hydro to an ocean seems like a small set of sites. :) A naive glance
by rout39574 5y ago
What electricity sources have you identified as acceptable for this? Proximity of e.g. hydro to an ocean seems like a small set of sites. :) A naive glance suggests that solar capacity factor of 25% is going to put that particular source out of your budget.
- uranium 5y ago+1 Can you handle intermittency in your power, or do you need to run continuously? What capacity factor do you assume in your cost model?
- marcuslima 5y agoThat's actually the trickiest part of the engineering, but we've managed to make it directly compatible with the an intermittent energy source like solar and wind
- LeifCarrotson 5y agoOne fortunate aspect of electricity is that it's easy and efficient - on the order of 2-6% losses due to transmission for hundreds of miles - to transport. Whether your country has invested in renewable sources like hydro plants and associated high-voltage, long-distance transmission lines is what matters. The geography of whether hydro plant is near the coast or not is of less importance than whether it exists or not!
- twic 5y agoThere's quite a lot of wind power available at sea.
- marcuslima 5y agoConvenient that ;)