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Re:Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in Fr... by steeve on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:18PM (#23854637)
If you run the numbers, you’ll see that we are several orders of magnitude away from having anything close to the scale of energy storage needed unfortunately
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Re:Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in Fr... by funcDropShadow on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:02PM (#23860335)
Extending the grid transport capacity, allows you to transport the energy from the place where is currently blowing to the place where it is neaded. That, reduces the need to store power.
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Re:Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in Fr... by steeve on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:04PM (#23860352)
This has been demonstrated to be false at the Europe scale, unfortunately. See https://youtu.be/1aCHN6dytVY (in french though)

In a nutshell, either there's wind everywhere, or not.

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