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In response to "Why the U.S. Electric Grid Isn’t Ready for the Energy Transition" by crash davis 😺

I have a friend in alternative energy...solar has variable output and the stress that puts on the grid is insane. You have to have ingest points

Posted by colin (aka colinski) Jun 12 '23, 06:26

that keepmit constant. Things that are basically like giant fly wheels that slowly speed up or slow down with power chanbes, but keep power fairly steady.

Wind does not have this issue..

But the point also stands we're using 100+ year old power designs and have not updated much of it.

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There a lot of challenges, but I'm hopeful we are getting around to tackling them. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 06:31 1
- When something so critical as power infrastructure is left to for profit corporations, we have little hope of seeing sane planning for the future - colin Jun 12, 06:41

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I have a friend in alternative energy...solar has variable output and the stress that puts on the grid is insane. You have to have ingest points

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