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Grid batteries reach stunning new peak of 44 percent of evening demand in California, the world's fourth biggest economy by GDP

The fossil fuel economy is finished. The only question is whether it manages to drag a lot of human civilization into it’s grave

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I’m curious what the storage medium is. I didn’t see a breakdown in the article between grid scale storage and residential installs. It’d be pretty incredible if all of the demand was satisfied by power walls. Napkin math tells me that would require around 1.2 million installations.

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@cravl@slrpnk.net · 13d

IIRC, California primarily uses raisin hydration/dehydration as a storage medium. Strange, but ineffective.

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