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Re:Alphabet spinoff Malta raises $26M for technology to stor... by empath75 on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @10:41PM (#18722313)
If energy is free or nearly free and it’s being wasted currently, then how much does the efficiency really matter?
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Re:Alphabet spinoff Malta raises $26M for technology to stor... by Retric on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @10:48PM (#18722350)
First if you can’t charge every day then your capital costs are effectively much higher.

It’s only ‘free’ before you have a battery in place that can use it. With this buying at 3c/kWh and selling at 6c/kWh is losing money. If anything else can profit and scale by buying at 3.01c/kWh and selling at 6c/kWh then that’s going to win.

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Re:Alphabet spinoff Malta raises $26M for technology to stor... by Jabbles on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:43AM (#18723592)
It may encourage energy to be generated unnecessarily, producing unnecessary CO2.
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Re:Alphabet spinoff Malta raises $26M for technology to stor... by ant6n on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:40AM (#18722949)
If there are other systems that are more efficient, then it probably does matter.
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