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"apart from buying batteries" - that is imo precisely enough. We are nearing a time, where a battery that would flatten the avg household demand curve costs und
by tomaskafka 2y ago
"apart from buying batteries" - that is imo precisely enough. We are nearing a time, where a battery that would flatten the avg household demand curve costs under $2000 (without installation costs), and that might be quite enough to change how electrical production works.
- martinald 2y agoYes, poorly worded from me. I meant more households can't really do a huge amount about load shifting without batteries. Not that batteries are a bad idea or not workable.
- XorNot 2y agoIf a battery could flatten demand on a household basis, then why not just implement it on a grid basis?
- alias_neo 2y agoProbably for the same reason many things are the way they are; pushing the cost onto the consumer.
- stouset 2y agoSpreading out the capital costs to those better able to shoulder them.
- Thiez 2y agoSo rich people? So they can save money while people who can't afford a battery cannot. I guess it's like this for most cost-saving investments, but doing it this way hardly contributes to a more fair society.
- fennecbutt 2y agoNah just tax the rich and make it illegal for corporations based in a tax haven (like Ireland) to do business in our economies.
- nine_k 2y agoSnark notwithstanding, a thousand batteries distributed close to actual consumers give much more resilience against grid outages, like transmission lines or transformers damaged by a hurricane.