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Exactly. Why did holes into the earth to store toxic waste when you have literally infinite energy right above your head (sun and wind)?

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Infinite AND intermittent.

Renewables don't work for base load yet.

There is currently almost no financial incentive to build storage, because we haven't built enough generation capacity yet. Germany for example gets 40-50% of its electricity from renewables on average and only 1-2% are lost because we don't know what to do with it during times of overproduction. So any storage system would mostly be filled with fossil power right now.

You don't actually need a whole in the earth. With actual modern technology you only need to store it for 300 years and you can store it on a single football field in a desert or field without issue.

But we can't have nice apparently. We rather waste billions on some dumb geological storage rather then just use basic logic. Misinformation and politics are the only reason for these deep geological repositories.

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