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noosphryesterday at 11:14 PM3 repliesview on HN

Hospitals can also just run on the sunny days.

Renewable energy only makes sense in a society that is agrarian. The second you have to make anything industrial you need baseload. That baseload can either be coal or nuclear.


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skrauseyesterday at 11:25 PM

In modern times you combine solar energy with wind power and batteries and you already have 90% of the load covered. Then combine that with cheap, easily adjustable gas power plants to complete the picture for cloudy, windless winter days.

There's really no need for coal or nuclear power plants anymore.

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sensanatyyesterday at 11:44 PM

Or we can turn off the net negative data centers in order to keep our Hospitals running smoothly, rather than taking the entire grid down so some psychopaths in Silicon Valley can LARP at creating their silicon God.