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Not a panacaea but another benefit of aluminium (the correct term for many of us around the world :) is that the process acts as electricity storage, providing
by beachy 4y ago
Not a panacaea but another benefit of aluminium (the correct term for many of us around the world :) is that the process acts as electricity storage, providing a useful way to soak up excess power when it is cheap.
- shagie 4y agoAmerican Companies Still Make Aluminum. In Iceland. - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/us/politics/american-companies-still-make-aluminum-in-iceland.html?unlocked_article_code=6sZt9e152z-oSg_o4FKskr1d12DjShBRuZIpk4TUFbw41OpJKBXH6CQAwW4WQq7QOI1nUKq813fXn4Ey5mrBpVPZ4Z3AmoQBltqveEWIhH9vfjeiauAt3gtoZfR2XNrifkySEvRXb6zsRN7ta7FCFEvG5Ryl-TqE73IqfP7FE6rm6fiAeURIk-nzwbvOMfCgac4onZRJbsZabdmPdtXX5zOaMxvNh_pmfuPjaaofbUmpyqUzdr8ckg_dMgt5QidofbNkMgt2aBj7smF8mVz0YntnpMzjPNpxvfRRug-x3CLAEhrW9tshc2FGz8O5444K_s09INY7yvTfUKmmIy3btcMK8WqnGBfFoJlbiM1tcn49xSeuAPcf5lwL6i0sDZw&smid=share-url https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/us/politics/american-comp... > Electricity in Iceland costs about 30 percent less than what Alcoa might pay in the United States. That’s a crucial consideration, because the Alcoa smelter alone uses more than five million megawatt-hours of electricity each year — about the same as the half-million people and all the businesses in the city of Colorado Springs.