This feels like it is begging for further context.
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Hear me out: pump the excess solar power from the sunny side of Earth via maser into space at a geostationary microwave mirror array that reflects and focuses power back at a ground station on the dark side of Earth.
That's exactly why i want it, but i can't in our appartment...other than a single mobile panel on our balcony and a mobile battery, which will cost about €1000 and will only allow me to partially run some electric devices.
Sounds like economics needs redefining.
Economists have long forgotten that society has been around a hell of a lot longer than capitalism.
Never forget the plot of space balls is that they figured out how to monopolize the air.
It was released in 1987.
Mel Brooks is the goat.
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Gemeni then said, "hold my beer" and proceeded to blacken the sky.
Solar is at it's most cost effective on buildings that use a lot of power during the day, such as factories and office buildings.
That way, you're using most, if not all, of the power you generate, rather than selling it to the grid at a lower cost.
Thank you "Bred Menace 🔞" for this insightful tweet.
People keep reposting this like it's a gotcha.
It's not
If prices are negative most of the day there is less incentive to provide the capacity that's needed during the night. The money for capex has to come from somewhere so it goes up significantly at night. And of course the negative price isn't "real", it just means power plants will shut down for swaths of the year until it's affordable to keep the remainder running. Which then means lower average capacity on days that are cloudy, or additional maintenance on systems that only run in the winter. So then people throw battery stuff around... batteries are expensive. Really, really, really, really expensive. So you have to find a way to keep capacity up that's not absurdly expensive or hard to maintain, or you have to keep all your fossil fuel plants at the ready while producing $0 in income to offset the upkeep, which...yes, gets passed to the consumer.
I know people want to simplify the national grid which spans across all continental states and connects to literal billions of devices producing and consuming power...but it's actually kinda complicated.
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Obviously any business model's problems should be blamed on whatever breaks it.