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My standard response to negative energy prices is, it's oh noes for energy suppliers and oh yes baby for industrial users. A medium electric arc furnace consum

• pfdietz 2y ago
  There's a whole industrial technology -- bulk resistive heat storage -- that's popping up to deal with intermittent low or negative power prices. Temperatures as high as 1800 C can be stored in resistively heated refractory materials, then used to displace fossil fuel combustion in various industrial processes. The stored energy/mass and energy/cost in such materials can be very high.
  • Gibbon1 2y ago
    Yeah if you're calcining concrete clinker you'll happily use resistive heating if electricity is cheaper than nat gas. I like to bitch about people that think the free market solves everything but oh noes the price of electricity is negative is one thing I think the free market can totally solve.
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