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More desalinated water would be handy, but typically it's not needed anywhere near the salt water and where it is needed more electricity isn't.
by flukus 7y ago
More desalinated water would be handy, but typically it's not needed anywhere near the salt water and where it is needed more electricity isn't.
- donw 7y agoBut can't those plants just pull from the (now cheaper) power on the grid?
- mcv 7y agoSo use the energy to pump the water to where it is needed. Use it to generate hydrogen or methane or something to sell as fuel. Mine bitcoin even. It seems weird and wasteful to just shut off free energy.
- Scarblac 7y agoThose are really capital intensive solutions to a problem that occurs only now and then and might stop entirely if the situation changes a bit. In the meantime, to give people a reason to implement them, there is this market mechanism.
- qtplatypus 7y agoOne of the projects is to build an interconnect to the snowy mountains. When this happens the power can be used to pump water up hill to fill the hydro electric dams.