• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    Of course, it depends on the conditions.

    Seasonal variation.

    If you are doing solar right, you will have surplus power from it 9 months out of the year. The solution to making it profitable is not storage. It’s finding customers who can use that excess power, but won’t increase winter demand.

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      22 hours ago

      The ultimate solution is likely the creation of small scale localized carbon capture that exists to manage summer overcapacity.

      The current biggest issue with carbon capture is that it’s less efficient than not burning fossil fuels in the first place

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        22 hours ago

        Desalination, fischer-tropsch synfuel production, hydrogen electrolysis. Even if we can’t find anything productive to do with the power, there are plenty of useless, nonproductive ways to monetize excess power: AI and Crypto, for example.

        Overcapacity is not an actual problem.