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by adgjlsfhk1 401 days ago
hydro is also a 0 carbon dispatchable choice (which is much cheaper)
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Geothermal
Majority of good spots for hydro were already built up, and if they weren’t, good luck with NIMBY.
meant of the good spots are already used, but we can change how they are used to greatly increase their usefulness to a 0 carbon grid. we can make them all pumped hydro, and start treating hydro as a battery rather than a generation source.