| ▲ | dotcoma 11 hours ago |
| Doesn’t happen to solar plants. |
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| ▲ | Rygian 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Their nuclear reactor goes away every night though. |
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| ▲ | fragmede 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Obviously the solution to that is to put mirrors in space to reflect sunlight so their collectors also work at night. | | | |
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| ▲ | sudb 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I was sure this couldn't be true but I couldn't find anything about high temperatures shutting down solar plants. But I did find something about a predicted grid overload during a sunny period requiring a solar plant to go offline: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/12/solar-fa... |
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| ▲ | netsharc 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Just redirect the solar power to cool the water going out of the nuclear powerplant. "Just". My 4th grade physics knowledge is telling me this doesn't work, because the heat energy from the water still has to go somewhere... | | | |
| ▲ | toomuchtodo 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Because they need more battery storage, which Europe is rapidly building. | | |
| ▲ | sudb 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | It can't come fast enough! I have a friend who works on battery storage in Europe and it sounds like an extremely busy time for them, which I'm glad for. | | |
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| ▲ | vitally3643 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It does when it rains, or it's too cloudy, or it snows, or the panels are dirty. Or, y'know, nighttime. |
