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Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 3 weeks ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I doubt that would be terribly relevant. The lions share of the surplus energy should be predictable based on recent grid data + 24 hour weather forecasts.

Based on nothing but wikipedia the primary methods for desalination are distillation (boiling) and membrane; neither of which sound like ramp up time would matter.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, if time to come online and time to go offline doesn't matter, then that definitely works.