• fubarx@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It takes twice as much electrical energy to produce energy in the form of gasoline.

    We lose money on every sale, but make it up on volume!

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      What’s the alternative? Turning down production when demand is lower than supply or try to out it into batteries.

      So you can either do nothing, or use the capacity you’d otherwise waste. Then it comes down to which is a better / cheaper storage method: building batteries, or something that turns that extra power I to some that can be easily stored/used later.