Hundreds of old EV batteries have new jobs in Texas: Stabilizing the grid

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• OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wait a second - this reads like you can store electricity, but everyone knows that you can only have electricity for a short period of time after it’s generated. Or is that just the case for solar and wind energy?

  Like, I guess since coal and gas have been inside the earth longer that means the electricity can last longer, right?

  And solar and wind energy, since it hasn’t been baking underground, is more prone to evaporation or whatever, which is why we can’t just stick batteries in solar and wind farms and save some of that electricity for when there’s no wind or for when the moon is out?

  My wife has this little electric toothbrush thing that she puts in her pants after I finish making love to her, and I’ve seen batteries in it - could those be wind batteries? They’re pretty big, but not car battery big.

  I’m a Republican by the way.

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