Re:Fusion Foolery
by concordDance on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:55PM
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Yes, you can make extra cheap aluminium on sunny days, but when it's cloudy you have a bunch of metal workers with nothing to do.
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Aluminum pots cannot have their power varied too much. Either they freeze up or they ruin the walls by overheating. Some variably can be tolerated, and would be useful, but they wouldn't be highly dispatchable like electrolysers would be (and are not at a scale that could load balance entire grids.)