Solar refineries: what does it take to get to 1GW / day?
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Solar refineries: what does it take to get to 1GW / day?
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I wanted to understand the optimal quantities of solar overbuild and battery backup for loads of arbitrary capex ($/kW) and utilization. Summary plots below.
Unsurprisingly, there are two stable attractors: cheap loads, intermittent operation, no batteries, and expensive loads, n... See more
PROJECT STARGATE ENERGY ANALYSIS
Project Stargate is going to need an enormous amount of power: each of the five Stargates needs about 5 gigawatts (about five million people's worth) of constant electricity for each ~$100b supercomputer project.
Let's break it down.
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Mark Nelsonx.comIn large, populous nations, the complete reliance on these renewables would require what we are still missing: either mass-scale, long-term (days to weeks) electricity storage that would back up intermittent electricity generation, or extensive grids of high-voltage lines to transmit electricity across time zones and from sunny and windy regions to
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