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Pumped storage, grid scale batteries and syngas all exist.

When combined with solar and wind they can all easily compete with nuclear power on cost, they're just more expensive than natural gas for peaking.




> Pumped storage

Very limited in where you can build it

> grid scale batteries

Don't exist. You severely underestimate the needs of the grid

> syngas

Aka burning furl and calling it carbon neutral. And have they passed the 1MW mark


>Very limited in where you can build it

There was a scientific study that looked this precise question and found 10x as many sites as necessary

>grid scale batteries Don't exist.

Your assertion is trivially disproven with a quick google.

>Aka burning furl and calling it carbon neutral

aka making hydrogen from excess solar/wind, storing it, burning it and turning that into electricity.

it's unfortunately only 50% efficient but that still makes it cheaper than nuclear power.




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