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Concentrated solar would be nice due to the high operating temps and the thermal storage instead of batteries but they have to be at least as big as 1 grid scale turbine. Solar in a straw- trough concentrators on single axis trackers are much simpler.
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None of this will be nearly enough to replace the total energy we are now using. But whatever we can get built in the next 30 years will be much better than nothing.
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Smart meters everywhere with realtime, 15 minute pricing and an internet of everything controlling ev charging from the car via smart phone are the first steps to trying to level intermittent demand from increasing rebuildables.
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