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Old 03-02-2019, 04:54 PM   #5255 (permalink)
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nukes,batteries

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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
Go Nuclear.
Grid batteries are stupid.
There is only several hundred years worth of uranium sitting around left over from the cold war.
The world can barely make enough batteries for a few million new electric cars each year.
Grid batteries don't generate power they waste it.
Some are trying very hard to make a go of nuclear.
I had 'grid-scale' batteries for a decade and they were great.They allowed me to have continuous available power for many days,when there was no sun at all.
As to making batteries,there may exist technologies which haven't been tapped yet.
If a cloud transits a solar farm,a battery will allow for loads,as currently gas-fired turbine peaking plants do.If nothing else.
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