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Re:Global Solar Power Investment Will Top $1B per Day This Year by xyzzyz on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @03:30PM (#36232212)
You don’t need to be very accurate, because the cost of storage is enormous even if you’re off by factor of 5.

Try it yourself: start from here https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/ and calculate how much it would cost to store one day of energy use in US.

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Re:Global Solar Power Investment Will Top $1B per Day This Year by pfdietz on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @03:35PM (#36232282)
Well, the salt formation in Delta, UT can store enough hydrogen for something like 30 hours of the average US electrical power consumption. IIRC, creating those ~100 storage caverns would cost in neighborhood of $10 B.
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