Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet

Re:Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet by 2thumbsup on Sunday March 02, 2025 @04:21PM (#43235261)

Solar and wind energy has a problem, which is storage. We have not yet developed a competitive solution to store energy on commercial scale that works everywhere.

Nuclear energy is stable but generally quite costly per kWh compared to renewable energy.

Nuclear energy and renewables in combination balances out disadvantages. Nuclear energy reduces the need for energy storage solutions in renewables by providing a base load, while renewables would enable cost-efficiency in even quite energy demanding uses (e.g. carbon capture, generating methane etc.).

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Re:Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet by mperham on Sunday March 02, 2025 @04:36PM (#43235421)

Is it 2015?

You can buy 10x as much solar+battery as nuclear these days. Nuclear is simply too complex and dangerous to compete.

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Re:Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet by Chilko on Sunday March 02, 2025 @05:16PM (#43235806)

Yeah when it comes to these discussions, I think most people are unaware just how much the cost of solar & BESS (at the large scale) has fallen in the past couple years.

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Re:Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet by applied_heat on Sunday March 02, 2025 @10:56PM (#43238151)

The battery installed along solar farms is usually on the order of hours of energy delivery though. Like 5 hours. It’s fine, but not everyone will be able to ornaffors to buy electricity on when it is cloudy and still for a few days.

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Re:Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet by Paradigma11 on Monday March 03, 2025 @07:52AM (#43241258)

Battery capacity for how long?

You are talking about a statistical value not a deterministic one.

So it is solar+battery which is sufficient for n% of typical years.

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