id":45233797,"user":"natmaka","time":1757784743,"time_ago":"16 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Deploying a continental renewable mix (wind, solar...) reduces the effets of 'intermittency' on electricity production.

It is possible because interconnecting grids at continental-level is The Way for quite a while, even without any renewable, because it enables operators to optimize (preferring less-emitting and cheaper production units) and also to obtain a better service guarantee (less blackouts!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe_Synchronous...

It also enables over-produced electricity to power electrolyzers. 'Green hydrogen' thus obtained can power the backup/peakers (producing electricity to load-follow and also when other intermittent equipment cannot produce enough on-the-spot), further reducing 'intermittency' effects. This isn't sci-fi ( https://www.gevernova.com/gas-power/future-of-energy/hydroge... ), many can burn a mix (methane, hydrogen...) and some recent models can be retrofitted into burning hydrogen (no major investment nor need to reform existing heavy resources/organization).

Storage will also more and more prominent in electrical systems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182026

Nuclear will be trounced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45196328

Patent holes in the most hyped nuclear-favorable approach show that there is no issue on sight for it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182003

The trend is clear: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-fossil-renewa... (explore many nations/regions)

He will soon be dead, Jim.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"url":"item?id=45233797"}

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