• Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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      If you passively produce more energy than what you actually need, that excess energy can be stored. And even if the stored energy won’t be 100% efficient, it’s still passively produced and can offset the peak hours consumption as needed.

      We have a lot of energy storage solutions l, let’s stop the fossi fuels subsidies and spend them on scaling power storage.

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        You have to build and maintain the storage.

        Even if the electricity is free you’ll have to replace your battery once in a while and at current prices that is ludicrously expensive.

        It’s cheaper to pay an already built fossil fuel plant to idle with spare capacity.

        Give it a few years for battery technology and it may look different.

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          The problem is that the planet is burning right now, but we only talk in terms of profits.

          Yeah the fossil fuels industry is “cheaper” because it has a shit ton of subsidies and does not include the environmental cost.

          We have solutions that work right now that we could start to build and maintain while reducing/eliminating the most polluting sources of energy.

          The solutions don’t have to be perfect, they have to be better. And if your only argument is money, then fuck off.

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            And if your only argument is money, then fuck off.

            I agree with you on this sentiment, but it is still an obstacle we have to work around because a huge chunk of the world is going to make decisions based on money. But that’s what things like government subsidies are for.