That article does not say what you think it does. Those batteries are only there for the purpose of "load balancing" and they only have enough capacity to cover an electricity outage of 15 minutes at worst for those 30k households. (Probably less. They probably only cover a fraction of that output. But I'm being generous and take them at their words.) So why are they there? Well in first you have to understand how energy generators like wind and solar interact with the energy grid. Wind and Solar are variable energy sources were the output increases and decreases randomly over time. In order to make that energy at all useful you need to combine it with a conventional energy source that can rev up and down quickly to cover the spikes and falls in energy. There are three such power sources available. Coal, gas and hydro power. Two of them are fossil fuel and the last is limited to rainy mountainous areas and are not available in most of the world.
Elon Musk's Tesla battery farm has saved South Australia $116 MILLION
Operating via the Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia, the battery has helped to restore stability to the network and lower the costs of running the power grid, according to reports.www.dailymail.co.uk
- Elon Musk bet that if they didn't deliver the battery in 100 days it would be free
- They delivered it within 70 days and it has saved an estimated $116 million AUD
- It also reduced the cost of operating the once shaky power grid by 91 per cent
Elon Musk built and deployed the world's 1st 100 megawatt lithium battery designed for power grid applications.
Illustrating the technology exists and is feasible.
Only one of those powerplants are currently in use. The diablo canyon one. And that one is scheduled to close in a couple of years. This is one of the major reasons for all the brown outs in Cali. They literally dont have any stable base power left.
I know about that bit with the states. And I will make this point: What you are suggesting is tyrany. And something people in the US either have been brainwashed to believe or are disingenuous enough to push for because they know that without this they would never get their policies past. What you are suggesting is not a reason for presidential elections to be decided via electoral college. Every time a president is elected without a popular vote victory you are electing a president without a real mandate who is actually opposed by the majority of people.
The electoral college is the voting equivalent of affirmative action or scholarships for minorities.
They are in place to promote equality of states and not award unfair privilege or favortism to certain regions with disproportionately higher populations.
This goes back to AOC having less than 10 residents of her district donate money to her campaign.
Real americans don't like AOC or Ilhan Omar. The only ones voting for them are uneducated, uninformed, illegal immigrants who have trouble getting legit voting IDs.
The same with Sadiq Khan in london and all the other leftist shills who are only in office thanks to voter fraud.
Thank you once again, for proving that you truly are bigoted and know nothing about anything. Real Americans love America and making sure Americans do well. Right wingers like you, Trump, and others are not real Americans, just hateful, gullible bigots who will blindly believe whatever agrees with them. You don't even have any stats or evidence for anything you say, yet it doesn't stop you from making dumb claims. You're an embarrassment to America, but unfortunately you are also a representation of what part of America is about.
i know.... but they were the first inhabitants of teh land and they've stayed here since, so if anyone can claim to be real americans, its them.... strong emphasis on "if anyone"...
Their land isn't "America" though. Within this framework, yeah, America is indeed a construct, I guess.
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Indeed, as sad as it is, China is doing better than you guys.
Uff, yeah, that checks out. I just read an article about how early voting in texas already exceeds total turnout in the 2016 election... At this point chaos sounds increasingly more likely next week.
That doesn't really add anything to this. It's essentially all innuendos but no specific crimes or actual evidence of one. No paperwork, no money trails, no signatures.... Or even a specific accusation. As far as I have been capable of making sense of all this nonsense: