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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Grid scale batteries allow for better security by distributing storage across the network and lets us store renewable energy from peak hours.

Cheap grid storage will be a game changer

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And it mitigates the current red herring of the anti-solar groups complaining that solar "generates too much electricity during the day, and not enough at night".

With an effective and balanced grid storage system across the country, we can recharge the batteries during the day and then use the power at night.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can only hope that the anti solar groups are arguing in bad faith when they complain about how the sun works.

Either that or: they actually think that pro solar doesn't understand this fact or one of the two groups doesn't know how to pair solar with batteries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it's the second one, because every time I've heard the objection about the Sun not working at night it has always been in the form of a gotcha and not in the form of a question like, how do we deal with this issue?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it's pretty obvious. They really think they're the first ones to realize this.