U.S. may already have spent as much as $31 billion on five-week conflict, think-tank estimates
  • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The batteries to support them unfortunately cost an order of magnitude more and you kinda need to smooth out all that generation.

    Would still be a hell of an investment into energy security, not just sustainability.

    • kunaltyagi@programming.devEnglish
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      2 days ago

      So instead of 1000 farms, setup 91 farms and 91 battery backups (equal to 910 farms). That still a lot of investment into the future

    • Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Good thing battery costs are dropping at over 10% per year (for lithium ion), and tons of other options exist for grid scale stationary applications, like iron-air, sodium, vanadium flow, gravity, pumped water, compressed air, kinetic…)