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> There is none except hydro and nuclear for base load. I'm not the person you're replying to, and I mostly agree with your points, but I think its necessary t
by andyjohnson0 3y ago
> There is none except hydro and nuclear for base load.
I'm not the person you're replying to, and I mostly agree with your points, but I think its necessary to point out that nuclear and hydro have long lead times to build the infrastructure. And we basically don't have enough time left to build it.
I don't have good answers. Solar + interconnectors, maybe? So that areas in daylight can power areas that aren't? But this obvs requires cooperative behaviour.
- mplewis 3y agoThe second best time to build nuclear is today.
- hef19898 3y agoNot if you get the equivalent of multiple NPPs in renewables installed every month it isn't. The best time to build nuclear was before Chernobyl, and since Fukushima new nuclear plants are dead basically.
- labster 3y agoThe third best time to build nuclear is in about 20 years, when we develop fusion.
- adrianN 3y agoThere is no reason to believe that fusion will be cost competitive.
- KingOfCoders 3y agoIf fusion is nuclear than solar is too ;-)
- belter 3y agoAdd a zero digit to your estimate.
- amatix 3y agoThere's a company working to build a 3600km long cable between solar + wind farms in Morocco, and the UK. 3.6GW cable, 10GW of generation, 20GW of battery storage, and the cable should run at full load for 20h a day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xlinks_Morocco%E2%80%93UK_Power_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xlinks_Morocco%E2%80%93UK_Powe...