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"Why cant we all live off solar and wind? Why must you have nuclear?"

Is large scale and cost competitive energy storage a solved problem?




Depends on your definition of solved, but yes kinda: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-gas

While I don't think any large scale P2G installations do currently exist, it is all well proven tech that requires little to no additional research.

At least for Germany there exist some studies that suggest that it should be doable (especially financially) on a national scale.


So it all comes down to relative costs then. Has anyone done a comparison between nuclear costs and this?




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