Comment on Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman
XiELEd@piefed.social 14 hours agoiirc solar depends on well, solar energy, so it is often paired with another more stable source of energy.
Comment on Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman
XiELEd@piefed.social 14 hours agoiirc solar depends on well, solar energy, so it is often paired with another more stable source of energy.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Like batteries which are also dropping in price every year. That’s what utilities are already doing.
Nobody is trying to build nuclear plants to back-up their solar panels.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Accept that grid scale batterys are largely a pipe dream.
The largest battery banks in the world can provide a meager few minutes of grid power.
Battery storage is beyond infeasible at this time. Pumped hydro is far more cost effective, but limited to certain geographical locations, and often quite limited in capacity
rafoix@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
My point is that utilities are already building the more effective and efficient technologies for their areas. Nobody is trying to build nuclear because it simply costs too much.