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One issue is that they need to stay cooled and so there's an entire cooling apparatus which of course takes power. https://electrek.co/2017/01/24/tesla-teardow

• toomuchtodo 8y ago
  Which is minor compared to having to curtail renewables production.
• Pica_soO 8y ago
  Cooling can be done with ice-rods- which are created when energy is abundant and store surprisingly well in the long term. Even in the pre-Musk eras. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l