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I feel like Washington state doesn’t get enough credit. 72%+ from renewables and water reservoirs are the original grid scale battery.
by envoked 1y ago
I feel like Washington state doesn’t get enough credit. 72%+ from renewables and water reservoirs are the original grid scale battery.
- masklinn 1y agoThat’s because hydro does not deserve credit: if you can do hydro you already do because it’s cheap and reliable, and if you can’t do hydro that’s it. It is thus of next to no interest. Same with geothermal heating.
- envoked 1y agoValid point.
- kortilla 1y agoNo, they deserve credit. Otherwise protestors get the upper hand and get the dams decommissioned. If you downplay the right thing, the wrong thing for energy gets selected for other reasons.
- sidewndr46 1y agoIt's almost like valuing an ecosystem is worthwhile or something like that.
- bpodgursky 1y agoWashington is actively tearing down dams for salmon runs. All their hydro was built 60 years ago, by the federal government. The state deserves absolutely no credit.