Solar panels don't run at night. Betting on batteries is betting on an exponential that's been growing at a third the speed it needs to for it to be meaningful. China's grid uses them to lower emissions during the day but has idle coal plants to keep the lights on definitely.

This is something a capitalism country can't do.

In short we need to build a five grids worth of nuclear power plants as a national security priority, the same way the interstate highway network was, if we want to have any chance of keeping up.

In the mean time we can use gas turbines to make up the short fall for the next five years.

If you were using the energy for model training, there's no reason you couldn't scale compute on solar generation.

> Betting on batteries is betting on an exponential that's been growing at a third the speed it needs to for it to be meaningful.

Can you explain this statement?

> China's grid uses them to lower emissions during the day but has idle coal plants to keep the lights on definitely.

This is not what is happening.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...

10 years*

Nukes are great, although with the impending "Idiocracy" styled future that seems to be coming I'm less keen on them as I doubt our ability to properly run them over a long timeframe.

What we need, for many reasons, is a national water grid. The grid would provide plenty of pumped hydro to store solar power and return it to the grid at night. It would also resolve flooding issues and provide food security in the face of climate change. I don't think our country thinks that big anymore though.