Filling Nuclear Power's $5T Hole Is Beyond the Banks

Re:Filling Nuclear Power's $5T Hole Is Beyond the Banks by pfdietz on Sunday March 24, 2024 @01:11PM (#39808523)

Carter installed solar thermal collectors for heating water, not PV. They were torn down because solar thermal hot water kind of sucks. You don't see it much these days.

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Re:Filling Nuclear Power's $5T Hole Is Beyond the Banks by ZeroGravitas on Sunday March 24, 2024 @03:20PM (#39809518)

Solar thermal is used successfully all over the world (though more away from the poles). It's beginning to be eclipsed by solar PV now but that's 4 decades of carbon and pollution free heat it has provided on a massive scale.

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Re:Filling Nuclear Power's $5T Hole Is Beyond the Banks by pfdietz on Sunday March 24, 2024 @03:29PM (#39809627)

I understand in the US it's cheaper to put up PV and drive a heat pump water heater with it.

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