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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Buy more batteries?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

So sell the excess panels to countries that need them, duh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if this could open the door to cost-effective desalination, carbon capture, and similar projects.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Maybe. The problem with these systems currently is that they also have large capital costs. So if you only run them during times when electricity is cheap, you end up having less production/revenue to offset those costs. So it doesn’t really pencil out yet, unless electricity becomes cheap all the time or you figure out how to build them really cheaply.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

So how does that work? Could you make money running a big energy-wasting heating coil?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

They shourd hurry up with district heating. It's the cheapest energy storage there is.

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