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Yeah where I work uses a pretty consistent load of around 20 megawatts. I would like to see renewables power that with 24hr reliability.
I just said aluminum plants normally use hydro electric power because it's the only production method cheap enough and still has the reliability to run a full shift providing the power needed.
Seems to me like the better option is to use less power.
Keep recyceing, use the same aluminum smelting process, use less power so more hydro electric is available to off set combustion fuelled plants.
Or use more power to make possibly greener aluminum and just run fossil fuels plants harder some where further down the line to make up for the extra power used by the aluminum plant.
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