From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: So Much Written... So Little Said
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:09:21 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-08-22 02:26, Dhu on Gate wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:25:06 -0700, Alan wrote:
>
>> On 2025-08-20 23:18, chine.bleu wrote:
>>> Alan wrote:
>>>>> Power bills + subsidies we pay in taxes, make for MORE expensive
>>>>> utilities, not cheaper.
>>>> Loser is too stupid to realize that monopolies will lower costs and keep
>>>> more profit for themselves...
>>>>
>>>> ...film at eleven.
>>>
>>> We do not have an infrastructure to store electricity. You make it and
>>> use within a millisecond. Even if you have to use it in heaters. Even
>>> unused generators have to be maintained. Fuel has to be stored at site.
>>> Generators cost money whether in use or not, but using them without need
>>> costs money.
>>>
>>> It is a peculiar product where spare capacity costs while missing
>>> capacity creates blackouts.
>>>
>>
>> Actually, they are developing methods for storing energy generated by
>> excess electrical power.
>
> Actually "They" are barking out their anuses, much like you.
No... ...they really aren't.
There are units that have already been completed:
<https://aresnorthamerica.com/gravityline/>
<https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/08/03/energy-vault-completes-25-mw-100-mwh-gravity-based-storage-tower-in-china/>
I found those two in just 5 minutes.