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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by Turing_Machine on Friday October 14, 2022 @04:08PM (#33208265)
> ~427GW of storage.

Storage isn't measured in GW, but rather in GWh.

I'd take any source that doesn't know the difference between W and Wh with a very, very large boulder of salt.

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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by bewaretheirs on Friday October 14, 2022 @04:16PM (#33208351)
Well, you need both GWh and GW ratings for storage - how much fits in storage, and how fast can you add and remove stored energy.
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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by Dylan16807 on Friday October 14, 2022 @11:30PM (#33211459)
When you're looking at "overnight" levels of storage, you can basically just assume that systems will be able to charge and discharge fast enough, and focus entirely on GWh.
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