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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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