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get up get up...lets wash our clothes right now, free, and then some, electricity. I always wondered what happened if there was 100units of energy in the syste
by onetimemanytime 7y ago
get up get up...lets wash our clothes right now, free, and then some, electricity.
I always wondered what happened if there was 100units of energy in the system and only 90 were used in that minute/hour. I imagined a place where they offloaded it to the ground, much like lightning.
- martin_a 7y agoSee... If politics hadn't fucked up for the last decades, and bowed down to the four large energy companies in Germany, we could have a wide variety of storage options to do something useful with all that excess energy...
- jevgeni 7y agoA bit of off-topic, but I love the elegance of gravitational energy storage, like what the Swiss are doing: https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surprisingly-efficient-way-to-store-energy/ https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris...
- martin_a 7y agoAnything is better than just wasting the energy or "selling" it for a negative price to somebody who dumps it somewhere.