Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice

acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  problem is solar and wind are variable and not feasible everywhere.

  Offshore wind is constant.

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• Schlemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Hydro energy to the rescue.

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• Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  the studied location is the UK

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The UK has one of the largest wind farms in the world, I think it actually is the largest in the world. One of the wind farms was built just off the coast of Scotland right next to trump’s golf course and I’m sure it was built mostly just to annoy him.

    Solar however is a lot less reliable, just because it’s not particularly sunny here and also with it being so far north during the winter the nights are quite long.

    The government says that the intention is to go 100% renewable but what they actually mean is as much as renewable as possible, plus nuclear cover the load. No one thinks you can 100% be on solar and wind.

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• brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The problem is something else. Energy in winter canada shouldn’t be used to power factories, the industry should be moved south but you have invisible lines on a map preventing that from ever happening.

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• kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  if you plan on batteries that requires lots of precious metals we will need elsewhere to aid in the transition to electric power.

  Umm, what about sodium-ion that are now getting put into production?

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