| ▲ | mirddes 3 days ago |
| it would be unwise to put all of ones eggs in someone else's basket. having as much wind solar and nuclear as possible will ensure humanity has a bright future. 18% seems like a good number. how much storage are they investing in? |
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| ▲ | bobthepanda 3 days ago | parent [-] |
| > "They're installing 1GW per month of pumped hydro storage," Mr Buckley said. Fun fact, pumped hydro was actually developed for nuclear originally in the 70s, since nuclear is a large source of power that is hard to ramp down during low demand periods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power... |
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| ▲ | eichin 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Err, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlewood_Lake was completed in 1928 (for electrical demand regulation.) Much older than nuclear... | | |
| ▲ | bobthepanda 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | My bad. It's still notable that the sixth largest one in the world was still developed for nuclear plants. | |
| ▲ | Retric 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Which is kind of funny as they where storing energy from a hydroelectric power plant, so building a larger dam would have been way more energy efficient. | | |
| ▲ | bobthepanda a day ago | parent [-] | | Connecticut isn’t very elevated so a dam at a higher level may not have been very practical. |
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