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Re:Equivalent of 97% of Scotland’s 2020 electricity consumpt... by cbmuser on Friday March 26, 2021 @10:56AM (#26592910)
The apparatus to produce hydrogen from electricity doesn’t like fluctuations in its power input.
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Re:Equivalent of 97% of Scotland’s 2020 electricity consumpt... by heavenlyblue on Friday March 26, 2021 @01:24PM (#26594660)
This is why you have many smaller ones and disable them one by one instead of varying the power supplied to them.
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Re:Equivalent of 97% of Scotland’s 2020 electricity consumpt... by Scoundreller on Friday March 26, 2021 @11:49AM (#26593499)
Who cares about efficiency and does it matter if the fluctuation is the on/off kind? I don’t see voltage changing.
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