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Indeed. I wonder how long this can last before the surplus wind power is used up by bitcoin miners and residential aluminum smelters.
by zachrose 11y ago
Indeed. I wonder how long this can last before the surplus wind power is used up by bitcoin miners and residential aluminum smelters.
- sitkack 11y agoOr water purification. Why not just bank the power in batteries and feed it back during peak load?
- msandford 11y ago> Why not just bank the power in batteries and feed it back during peak load? What's the retail cost of electricity in Texas during the day, and what do you pay per kWh for your batteries: capital costs and ongoing costs? If you pay more per kWh for batteries than retail power prices then any consumer is a fool to engage in the battery scheme. And even if a consumer might be able to make money, the wholesale price is definitely lower than retail. I seem to remember calculating that batteries cost about $0.06/kWh all in in the last ~6mo but wholesale power in TX is more like $0.05 and retail it's usually below $0.12.
- peteretep 11y agoKiller app for the Tesla PowerWall, right there
- pjc50 11y agoresidential aluminum smelters This is not something you can sensibly do in a residential area. (There are a few people doing Al casting with induction furnaces, but that's not the same as electrolysis of bauxite)