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I figure that the eventual evolution of relatively high-energy home appliances towards being able to vary their power draw depending effectively upon real envir
by ajcarpy2005 12y ago
I figure that the eventual evolution of relatively high-energy home appliances towards being able to vary their power draw depending effectively upon real environmental factors outside (sun/wind/tidal/geothermal) will make a lot of the discrepancies between power demand and availability go away.
Additionally, homes and communities need to invest in thermal mass technologies/infrastructure.
Also...now that I think of it, data centers use enormous amounts of power so I wonder if Internet-users could be financially (or otherwise) incentivized to use certain software or SaaS platforms for batching their effective data bandwidth and downloading content at times when the energy demand is low but output or potential clean energy output is high.
This could actually probably make a pretty big difference.