• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    If you’re spending billions to build a solar plant that has to turn off all the time during peak hours then you’re wasting your money. That seems like a fundamental issue to me, not a non-issue.

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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      40 minutes ago

      Are there any solar plants that cost a billion dollars each?

      Secondly, you want to over build solar, so that you have enough capacity during off peak hours. Grid storage is obviously the better solution, but seems not widely available enough yet.