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GliderGuider

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Tue Jul-31-07 11:02 AM
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4. Every kilowatt-hour you use has to be generated.

Edited on Tue Jul-31-07 11:03 AM by GliderGuider

There's no "spare" power that's being generated anyway but gets shunted to ground if it's not used, if that helps clarify the idea. There are load-balancing techniques that involve balancing demand between grids as well as some amount of fast-response capacity that's in use at all times, but if you want to put a kilowatt-hour into a battery, it has to be generated.

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