Part of my therapy is blocking sardonic people, you’re #4 for today!
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anyhow2503@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s incredibly surprising that neglecting infrastructure investments for a mere few decades would have such an effect.
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 23 hours ago
You should go ahead and make me #5.
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Gladly!
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 22 hours ago
That should prevent future issues. If you’re trying to rid yourself of sardonic people, you really don’t need me fucking up your therapy.
truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 1 day ago
Let’s be fair: no one ever warned that this could happen.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
No one ever warned us that our energy needs have been climbing steadily for decades, and we need to stop being afraid of nuclear power? Really?
What rock have you been hide in?
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
Nuclear and solar have competing problems. Nuclear is a baseload generator. It can’t ramp up or down fast enough to meet the daily demand curve; it needs a steady, stable load, 24/7. The steadier and stabler the load, the better. If the load drops off overnight, nuclear has to dial back its continuous output to match that trough. And again: It can’t ramp up and down fast enough to match demand, so it just has to stay at the lower “trough” level, with the remainder made up by various types of “peaker” plants.
To make nuclear as efficient at possible, we need to drive consumption to that trough. We have to increase overnight demand as high as possible, to minimize our reliance on inefficient peaker plants.
Now, look at solar. Solar stops generating overnight. Solar can’t possibly meet overnight demand without storage, and grid-scale storage solutions are fundamentally limited. To make solar as effective and efficient as possible, we have to move as much demand to daylight hours as possible, where it can be met directly by solar generation, without storage.
The two technologies require opposing demand incentives. Making one more efficient necessarily makes the other less. Whichever choice we make here, the other one is relegated to a limited, auxiliary role in generation, and can never reach its full potential.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
The solution is to just spam solar panels. Solar power is getting so comically cheap, that this is the solution we’ll likely use. Have enough storage for overnight. Then spam so many solar panels that your grid can meet demand even on a cloudy day in winter. You have enough to meet demand at the lowest productivity point in the year. Then the rest of the year we have cheap hyper-abundant power.
Diurnambule@jlai.lu 8 hours ago
Batteries, mass of batteries.