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Re:Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity by maaaats on Friday September 09, 2016 @11:00AM (#12462822)
Probably reactive or controllable. Wind, solar, gas, nuclear etc. cannot be controlled to the degree that opening the gates can. So it can respond better to the energy demands based on time of day.
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Re:Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity by wyager on Friday September 09, 2016 @11:16AM (#12462976)
Gas and nuclear can both be adjusted to match grid demand.
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Re:Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity by lostlogin on Friday September 09, 2016 @11:10AM (#12462918)
Pulling out control rods or cranking up the gas turbine are presumably pretty quick. Helping this is the fact that humans aren't all that difficult to predict in terms of energy usage.
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