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If I were a planner, I'd go for both. Impossible in capitalism or with modern politics, but I planning for failure makes a lot of sense to me, and I don't mind
by frognumber 4y ago
If I were a planner, I'd go for both.
Impossible in capitalism or with modern politics, but I planning for failure makes a lot of sense to me, and I don't mind having a power grid support 2x capacity.
Same for food, medicine, and general-purpose manufacturing (e.g. machine shops), for that matter.
- diordiderot 4y agoThe electricity actually _has to_ go _somewhere_. You could make a lot of batteries but double usage every day would build up fast
- crote 4y agoThe market will compensate for it. We might end up seeing peaker plants. We might see companies taking advantage of the price difference to cheaply run energy-intensive industry like aluminium smelting. We might see companies trying to take advantage of the price difference by building storage batteries. We might even end up incentivizing consumers to shift their usage patterns by providing cheaper electricity during low-demand periods.
- frognumber 4y agoPower plants can be kept offline.