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Well we'll just include an entire summer worth of storage for nuclear then, shall we?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/climate-events-are-t...

Or alternatively we could acknowledge that using the existing fossil fuel infrastructure for 8000 hours over the next century for the tiny minority of countries without enough hydro even in the unlikely case storage never improves is preferable to using them for 80,000 hours while waiting for nuclear plants to be built.

Not even 24 hours of storage is necessary in the vast majority of the world: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26355-z



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