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minus-squareteslekova@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up12·3 days agoThey’re essentially the same thing on the scale of a national grid. Battery banks can turn on the juice in microseconds.
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agogrid buffering does not need that. It’s literally guys looking at demand and phoning around to turn up or down generation. Fun fact: this was the first in a series of events that caused the Chernobyl explosion.
minus-squareteslekova@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoOh yeah, it’s massive overkill for the conventional grid. It’s just one of the things I see people say when trying to get people to accept that battery banks can make a renewable-only grid viable here in Australia.
They’re essentially the same thing on the scale of a national grid. Battery banks can turn on the juice in microseconds.
grid buffering does not need that. It’s literally guys looking at demand and phoning around to turn up or down generation.
Fun fact: this was the first in a series of events that caused the Chernobyl explosion.
Oh yeah, it’s massive overkill for the conventional grid. It’s just one of the things I see people say when trying to get people to accept that battery banks can make a renewable-only grid viable here in Australia.