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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If only there were some way to take energy made from sunshine and store it in some form for later. Like in a battery. Or as heat. Or in a flywheel. Or just use the energy for something we'd really like to do as cheaply as possible. Like sequester CO2. Or desalinate water. Or run industries that would otherwise use natural gas.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Seriously if it was free for me to run a hot tub I would be a more relaxed person…but somehow these negative power prices never seem to trickle down to the consumer 🤔.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It still costs real money to maintain the infrastructure; so even if the power was always free; you would still have to pay something to cover the maintenance costs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or use it to generate hydrogen for simpler, cheaper, more reliable, sustainable hydrogen powered cars.

We don't even have enough lithium to replace the average country's existing cars, let alone all of them, or literally anything else that requires lithium.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Isn't one the issues with hydrogen motors that they are a bit explodey? Genuine question, haven't looked into it in a long time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Pure hydrogen doesn't explode. It's only if you mix it with oxygen. The Hindenberg glowed red not blue