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Originally Posted by Fuzz
The thing with the north is most communities are small and spread out. They don't even need anywhere near what an SMR does, unless there is an industrial reason. You aren't linking them with transmission lines, either. So there aren't all that many communities that would make the cost worth it.
I think a lot of them would benefit from basic solar to cut way back on diesel use(generators) in the summer months. Beyond that, a lot of it is pretty small gains for the expense.
I've looked into geothermal in the north, there aren't a lot of good opportunities. Most wells are deep with a mediocre thermal gradient and bottom hole temperatures.
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Yep agreed. In it's own funny way, these are the communities that need the energy storage. Transport batteries back and forth between the production method and the communities.
and helping them solar for those North communities seem like a reasonable plan for summer months, no? They have like 22-23 hours of daylight a day.