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Re:In a first, wind and solar generated more power than gas ... by fp64 on Thursday June 04, 2026 @11:55AM (#48400510)
That's for 5000 people. And only covers heat. Happy if it can scale and move from prototype to long-term deployment at a reasonable cost, serving heavy industry in manufacturing.
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Re:In a first, wind and solar generated more power than gas ... by ceejayoz on Thursday June 04, 2026 @11:59AM (#48400553)
> That's for 5000 people.

And it's quite compact.

> And only covers heat.

Is that not useful?

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Re:In a first, wind and solar generated more power than gas ... by fp64 on Thursday June 04, 2026 @12:32PM (#48401032)
Don't get me wrong, this is cool. We just have some stricter requirements on a country/state/union level that while this might help with parts, I don't see how it can easily scale up and generalize
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Re:In a first, wind and solar generated more power than gas ... by ted_dunning on Thursday June 04, 2026 @04:45PM (#48404395)
It scales up just the way that siloes on farms scale up ... you build more of them.

And the Finns put a priority on staying warm. For normal electrical generation, they largely use wind with a growing solar fraction.

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