• ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Corporate greed aside none sane would like their tax money either to be spent on producing electricity when it’s not needed.

    You need to set the corporate greed aside in your own mind, too (not saying you’re greedy, saying you’ve been indoctrinated to only see life in capitalist terms). Stop thinking in “cost” or “profit”, start thinking in “benefit” and “use”. Producing electricity when it isn’t needed is only a problem when someone is looking to make money off of it.

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      2 months ago

      Producing electricity when it isn’t being used is problematic for the grid. So is producing too little.

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        2 months ago

        Producing electricity when it isn’t needed is only a problem when someone is looking to make money off of it.

        I never said it should be. There are plenty of ways to regulate electricity production, storage, and even usage, they just aren’t considered “profitable” so are dismissed, overlooked, and or deliberately smeared and destroyed because they threaten those whose profits they would hurt.

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        2 months ago

        Yes, but we already have many solutions ti store energy. Let’s spend the fossil fuel industry subsidies on scaling these storage method instead.