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"Spanish consultancy AleaSoft Energy Forecasting recorded negative hourly electricity prices for all but one European energy market it analyzed during the first week of April, including in the Spanish and Portuguese markets for the first time. It also registered an all-time production record for photovoltaic energy in Portugal and the second highest value ever recorded in Italy"

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[–] lurch 13 points 7 months ago (16 children)

if electricity is cheap enough, we can use it to collect water back from the air.

[–] taladar 1 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Collecting water from the air is not really viable in the parts of the world where lack of water is an issue since humidity is not very high there. You would need to filter huge amounts of air even just to theoretically get enough water, never mind practical concerns like efficiencies of less than 100%.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Dude, even heaters cannot get to 100% efficiency.

[–] faultyproboscus 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

...heaters are the one thing that's 100% efficient. And if you want to go even further, look up heat pumps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I mean, kinda? What sort of heater are we talking about and how do we measure its efficiency? But, if the definition is just converting energy to heat, without specifying where the heat needs to be, then sure. Every heater has 100% efficiency. Otherwise, there will always be a loss at transport and others.

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