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  • Yes, I only listed means to store or produce energy because upgrading powerlines won’t fix power fluctuations : that is due to imbalances between production and consumption, no amount of upgraded to transmission capacity is likely to help.

    Load management might help, however. But it’s typically hard to get people to consume more when needed and power shedding is expensive on the electrical operator… Especially since those oscillations were unexpected. Also those things already exist in many European countries.




  • What does “upgrade the grid” mean to you?

    Digging tons of rock and salts to store energy with batteries?

    In Europe there are very few remaining sites to build hydro power, and those have serious ecological consequences too… I don’t see to many alternatives. Biogas options are nearly tapped out. There is potential with geothermal using new digging techniques, but they’re mostly in the testing stage still.

    How is using batteries better than using said rocks to power nuclear reactors?

    There is a limit to how much one can add uncontrollable energy sources to a grid…













  • You read just like any basic American who hasn’t understood the first thing about Canadians.

    If you’d wanted Canadians to remain friendly, maybe you shouldn’t have voted for a fascist who threatens the very existence of Canada.

    I know it’s a lot to take in to realize how wrong you’ve been all this time defending trump but you’ll have to deal with the stupidity of it sooner or later. I just hope for you you haven’t lost all your friendships over it yet…


  • I mean, he agreed with trump on big tech being bad… As a FOSS defender, I don’t particularly mind.

    If he had been agreeing with Trump on immigration, the economy, the law or hairstyle, it would be an actual issue but I don’t mind this. I would have hoped for it to have been another president to take them on, naturally, but still.

    A broken clock is right twice a day. It’s time we remind republicans we are the side of reason, logic and science by only attacking them on legitimate issues, of which there no shortage whatsoever…