• jman6495@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The levelised cost doesn’t take into account the need to offset intermittence, which is the big fucking problem that the entire population of Germany seems to be ignoring.

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      1 year ago

      Ah yes you don’t have the exact same problem with nuclear because energy usage never fluctuates. But even if it would takes 10 times more money to store solar energy it still would be cheaper than nuclear.

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        1 year ago

        Rare earths for batteries are a bottleneck, especially if you want to electrify transport too.

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          1 year ago

          No they aren’t. There are so many different battery types that don’t use any rare materials. You can store heat in salt. SALT