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40% of US electricity is now emissions-free (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 11 months ago

I totally agree with this. A lot of places have cheap electricity in off-peak hours, as a workaround to this limitation (steady output).

I think that this obsession about intermittent power comes partially from the idea that any new sources of power must be drop-in replacements for the systems that we've had for so many decades. However those systems run the way they do as an accident of technology, not because of a careful analysis and design to match optimal usage patterns.