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Re:Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI p... by nradov on Friday September 20, 2024 @05:13PM (#41605558)
That doesn't help after sunset on the west coast when residential demand peaks and there is little renewable power being generated anywhere in North America. In theory batteries or other storage could close that gap but realistically it's going to take decades to scale that up.
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Re:Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI p... by jacoblambda on Saturday September 21, 2024 @11:45AM (#41610691)
That's 16 hours of sunlight but more importantly that allows the US to distribute energy production from hydro, wind, and geothermal production across the country.

During the daylight hours solar is great of course but my point about power averaging out had more to do with the other forms of renewable energy.

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