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The New Era of Clean Energy: Transcontinental Power Lines | British homes would be powered with African energy under an ambitious plan (www.wsj.com)

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Maybe don’t rely on other countries for your energy needs. We’ve seen how well that worked out with Saudi oil and Russian natural gas.

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

Eeehhhh, personally I am a bit warmer to the risks when there are renewables involved

[–] joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

I do think we need multiple tactics:

Local (national) surplus energy stored also locally (home battery, chargings cars, powering local industry from renewables at moments it isn't needed elsewhere), so all kinds of buffers. To also use it within the same country at other moments.
Diversify solar wind and thermal etc
Exchange cross-borders despite geopolitical risc. Countries with more sun hours or more steady wind or abundant geothermal sources or more hydro ... could export their surplus or capacity but also import.

For solar: if storage exceeds need, the daytime countries at any moment should power the nighttime countries, but only to balance local smart grids I think?