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California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind

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Re: California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind

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The sun does not shine 24 hours a day. Therefore, if you want to run a power grid 24 hours a day, you need expensive batteries to hold energy collected during peak production. Fossil fuels can be burned continuously, lessening the need for energy storage

~$12,000 is expensive? I await your reasons why this is so with baited breath. https://www.earthtechproducts.com/ecoflow-delta-pro-ultra-30...

Impressive. Thanks for sharing

Re: California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind

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Why is this unfortunate? Urban living shrinks each person’s land and energy footprint by packing people efficiently, cutting carbon emissions through public transit and walkability, preserving open natural spaces, and enabling more efficient infrastructure. It's true that concentrating populations in cities increases housing demand, but that doesn't automatically mean costs must rise—housing prices are driven by supp…

Presumably, DaSHacka means 'unfortunately' in the context of transporting power from unused US land to our urban centers.

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