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speedgoose on March 11, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years...

They have to shutdown production if the demand is not high. Once in a while they pay other countries to get their leftover electricity while they shutdown production.

martin_a on March 11, 2021 [–]

And we could use that energy instead to fill storage systems, be it water reservoirs or large battery packs or what might come.

But we need to have the right technology to do things like that...

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