Literally should be the point of renewable energy. The point of society in general should be to make as many things cheaper or free as possible.
Ok but (solar engineer here) even if there was complete willingness to give electricity away for free, that wouldn’t change the main problem with overproduction.
Often the electricity in wires can be compared to water in pipes. If you’re pumping a certain amount of water into the system, and people are using less, then you get overpressure. Do this enough and pipes will start to burst.
The power being used by any given city varies on the millisecond scale, and generation at power plants is varied at the same millisecond scale, in real time, constantly. Solar and wind make this job difficult, because we can’t turn the sun off for 0.13 sec on 20% of the solar array, the way we can do the equivalent for a natural gas plant.
The consequence is grid collapse, and the solution is “fast” energy storage (batteries, flywheels)
valve just straight up copying nintendo’s homework now
i feel like the history of nintendo is coming up with a unique and cool way to play video games until somebody copies them and does it better and then nintendo just has to rely on their exclusives until they come up with another thing. they deserve to get one-upped by valve because of how insane they are with copyright enforcement though
lads, a glorious new age of emulation is upon us
Yall i want to be excited but do you remember the steam link? and the steam machine?
yeah….i’ll believe this is “better” when I see it. Because I have a steam link, its shoved in a box because it was hot garbage that didnt work
i keep this quote on my bedroom wall so i dont forget about it. why did we let ted cruz forget about this anyways? why didnt we, as a society, make more fuss about this quote? im haunted by it daily since tedward cruz looks down upon me every night calling himself a rat fucker and NO ONE CARED we just let him SAY IT
