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Okay, but now run the numbers not for a middle eastern desert but for say Germany, or similar latitudes/weather patterns in the US. ChatGPT roughly estimated th
by H8crilA 1y ago
Okay, but now run the numbers not for a middle eastern desert but for say Germany, or similar latitudes/weather patterns in the US. ChatGPT roughly estimated the cost to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $500/MWh.
- epistasis 1y agoThat is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. ChatGPT is an innumerate as contemporary nuclear advocates. I regularly run the numbers for the US, and using old NREL numbers it's $120/MWh. The US has great solar resources. Germany has some of the worst. But in any case most of the cost is in the battery, not the panels, which are cheap. So bump that up and it doesn't change the cost much. I'm any case, unless you are Finland or similar, nuclear is not on the table.
- H8crilA 1y agoI see. Which part of the US? And the cost of the battery is included the price I gave. Battery is the main reason why it is so high.