• @Usernameblankface@lemmy.world
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      12 months ago

      If only the creators of the ball had enough profit coming in to put up more solar panels and build up a battery bank for the night so they wouldn’t take anything from the grid…

    • capital
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      02 months ago

      And yet they still couldn’t cover the last 30%.

        • Morphit
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          12 months ago

          So build concentrated solar power and store the heat for after the sun sets. Bonus - thermal power plant turbines give inertia to the grid, which photo-voltaics don’t.

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          12 months ago

          Regardless, that energy could be going to offset other energy currently being produced by non-renewables no matter which way you slice it.