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For more local purposes, solar + wind is a nice complement. Wind is strongest at night, while solar is best in the day.

Nuclear usually needs to keep running, and fewer people use electricity at night (unless you live in Philippines where it is common to only run AC at night to save on electricity).



> Wind is strongest at night

This depends on where you are. In many places wind is actually strongest during daytime.


Depending on elevation, among other things. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Comparison-of-the-diurna...


Also, you can use a refrigerator at night... the cold IS the battery.


That makes me wonder the viability of using a peltier as the pump/sink for a temperature differential battery.


Peltier eficiency sucks, so not really an option.




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