Comment on Solar becomes EU’s largest electricity source for the first time

• lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  yeah, intermittent power that recently led to grid collapse in spain. it’s not about how much power you make, it’s about how to distribute it efficiently.

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  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    US disinformation pigfuckers claimed it was due to intermittent power. No such conclusions were ever made, and there is no physical/tech challenge/impossibility to not have a stable grid with intermittent power.

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      the reason stated in the report was that base load failed to correct. it was a novel failure case, but very much related to a grid with intermittent power tacked on.

      of course there is no technical reason it wouldn’t work, but we are in the real world, where technical solutions are not implemented in a vacuum. the grid is yet to be completely retooled for intermittent wave-following sources, and accidents like this are how we figure out what not to do.

      also “us disinformation pigfuckers”? really? the us has a vendetta against spain now?

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      • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        US administration does have a vendetta against renewables, and failure to buy US energy at extortion prices.

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  • stink@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sand batteries are perfect for heat

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