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[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

You can’t just dump grid power — it needs to go somewhere. The grid needs to consume as much as it generates at all times or else bad things happen.

we figured out this problem centuries ago it is called capacitors. long term it is called batteries

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 2 months ago

Of course. Like I said, we know how to do it, but it's still an engineering feat to get it done.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Neither of which grow on trees.

Edit: well I guess lemons grow on trees and those are batteries if you try hard enough…

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

my dude gravity is a battery if you know how to use it

[-] dondelelcaro@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

There are only so many places where grid level pumped storage hydroelectricity works, and the capital and environmental costs are non negligible for most new locations.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That's only one method of using gravity

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

The problem we have to solve is that the energy storage that's built into the grid was built before widespread home solar adoption. We need new energy dumps, and those cost money. Of course the obvious answer is taxes, but good luck convincing Americans to pay for vital infrastructure

[-] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That relies on them not already being full and enough of them existing

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

shit like this burns power fast if you need to clear capacity. just ground it. i'm not that smart of an engineer and this is not that hard of a problem. the hard part is the grid, the interconnectedness, the load balancing, and that's already done.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

That would actually be sci-fi as fuck, and I'm now 100% for it. I want power plants to have constantly zapping Tesla coils

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

i was mostly just thinking arc gap sparking bullshit but tesla coils playing music for the workers and running the PA system. yesss now we are cooking