Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid

Re:Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods... by bufferoverflow on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @06:34PM (#17711509)

You can use sun light directly for that. Just paint your boiler black, maybe concentrate some sunlight with cheap mirrors.

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Re:Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods... by nine_k on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @06:45PM (#17711595)

This works well when you have a lot of sun. Instead you might have a lot of wind.

Also, you only want to run the desalination plant when the electricity price is too low ("below zero" with the transmission included), so you want generators for most of the time, when you actually sell the power.

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Re:Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods... by hogwild on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @06:41PM (#17711558)

Yea but not at night.

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Re:Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods... by imtringued on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @08:08PM (#17712094)

The entire point of this discussion is to figure out how to use electricity only during the day.

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