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Re:Explosion at US natural gas plant raises risk of shortage... by zozbot234 on Saturday June 11, 2022 @02:49PM (#31707052)
The technology is there, it's called demand response. Air conditioning and refrigeration are major workloads at the peak of summer, and can easily absorb any "excess" supply at a moment's notice. The heat capacity of whatever is being actively cooled then acts as your "battery".
Re:Explosion at US natural gas plant raises risk of shortage... by morsch on Saturday June 11, 2022 @02:51PM (#31707077)
Among many other things. We should have started figuring out this stuff -- and implementing it -- twenty years ago. Such a missed opportunity.