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> In many other places, you have to store for much longer term. Yeah, that doesn't make sense. Overbuild and interconnect rather. You can't do things like sto
by eloff 5y ago
> In many other places, you have to store for much longer term.
Yeah, that doesn't make sense. Overbuild and interconnect rather.
You can't do things like store summer solar energy for the winter. But there are plenty of places in the US where the sun is nearly always shining. If you can share that energy across the county you're in good shape. Likewise with the wind.
Again it helps you have solid baseload power. It's just nuclear is so expensive and takes so long to build that you can build twice the capacity in solar and wind plus a battery, plus a gas plant for a backup in less time and for a similar price.
- sesuximo 5y agoI don’t think you can interconnect over very long distances. I know of experimental projects, but nothing proven
- eloff 5y agoThere are five existing transmission lines in the world of 2000km and up (all in Brazil and China.) I think a cross USA interconnect is within the reach of current technology.