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Dark Doldrums Overshadow Europe’s Energy Markets | Periods of low sun and wind, a weather pattern known as a Dunkelflaute, can increase electricity prices and stoke political tensions. (www.nytimes.com)

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Designing for this is going to be absolutely key. It means some mix of clean non-emitting generation, such as geothermal or nuclear, and long-duration storage, such as flow batteries or hydrogen.

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[–] Donk@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 months ago

Dunkelflaute sounds like a ridiculous pastry. Agree with summary that storage is key in a clean generation system, but that is obvious. Also NYT is shit.