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throe9393i44itoday at 3:13 PM2 repliesview on HN

It is hard to operate renewables 24/7. At night and winter, you need a big array of generators and LED lights to shine on solars. Very inefficient.

Or for every solar you need a generator as a backup!


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re-framertoday at 3:39 PM

I asked whether solar/wind in combination with storage technologies, including but not limited to batteries, was able to reliably power a data center.

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mejutocotoday at 3:38 PM

Batteries