Re:The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar
by nixass on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @03:12AM
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>Spreading out production units of a mix (wind, solar, hydro, geothermal...) is key.
Sure. Let me just build hydro dam where there's no hills and dig some geothermal where's no geothermal activity and we're all set!
Re:The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar
by natmaka on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @07:12AM
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There is no need for each location to deploy each and every type of production unit: each region has its own geography and preferences.
Those benefiting from huge potential for hydro, offshore wind or solar (deserts...) are at an advantage. Those benefiting from a low production time-profile correlation with most other ones also are blessed.
Those totally unable to deploy anything probably don't need huge amounts of energy or are rich to the point of already importing it (is there a counter-example?).
Re:The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar
by Schroedingersat on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @03:16AM
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Laser drilling is not far from being viable. With it you can put geothermal anywhere.
Re:The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar
by eloff on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @08:00AM
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That has yet to be proved viable. It might be competitive, it might not, we'll have to see.
At any rate you could build nuclear faster than that will take to be ready for market in the best case.
Then comes storage, curtailment, and backup (always necessary: fossil-fuel plants always produce around 9% of electricity in fully-nuclearized France).
Moreover backup is now provided thanks to gas turbines, and we know to run them thanks to hydrogen (clean), which can be green hydrogen (cleanly produced thanks to renewable sources overproduction).