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Plants use sunlight in the summer to make sugar that they store for the winter. Perhaps we could make sugar too? Or methane, ammonia, etc.


Producing some sort of fuel using excess electricity to burn it later is a possible approach. But conversion has losses and storing fuel and maintaining facilities for burning it (basically gas power plants) adds more costs to initially cheap solar energy.




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