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Old 03-28-2018, 01:14 PM   #1221 (permalink)
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Can't we all just get a bong?

The value of the battery is it overcomes the bursty nature of demand, which might trigger a coal plant coming online and ramping up to meet a peak that has already passed. It's isn't rocket science, that's another Elon Musk company.

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Once the concept is proved out using environmentally-costly batteries, we can get serious:

http://blogs.worldwatch.org/revolt/u...a-grand-scale/

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