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thinking about how in the future, *when* you use electricity is going to matter much more. renewable energy is kind of wild because the marginal cost is so low. but batteries suck, so systems to shift demand become so much more important.Permalink Look on archive.org
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thinking about this with data centers - imagining AWS offering serverless batch processing compute, where they promise it'll run every day, but choose when based on when the electricity is cheapest.Permalink Look on archive.org
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or domestic boilers that heat a vacuum-insulated hot water tank at night, which you can then use throughout the next day. municipal heating plants with hot-sand heat storage.Permalink Look on archive.org
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if memory serves, grid-frequency modulation didn't go anywhere, but maybe it's time to pick it up again eepower.com/news/grid-frequency-modulation-may-replace-plc-technology/Look on archive.org
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nice blog post by @genmon, picking up on a lot of the same thoughts (i was definitely also thinking about that solar panel feeling of abundance): interconnected.org/home/2022/09/01/carbonPermalink Look on archive.org