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by Tade0 1677 days ago
You don't need that much storage. You'd really need at most 12h of peak power, but probably closer to 4h.

A 10k km HVDC line is enough to draw power from places 90 degrees apart in terms of latitude. Similarly, between the east and west coast of the US there's around 3h of a time difference.

Chile is planning on building an even longer cable, so it's entirely in the realm of possibility:

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/11/15/chile-wants-to-export...