alt Hacker NewsThe point being made is that if smoothing over time becomes sufficiently cheap then smoothing over space is supplanted.
It would be nice if this happened before the next Carrington Event (or the next nuclear war with orbital EMP weapons.)
The point being made is that if smoothing over time becomes sufficiently cheap then smoothing over space is supplanted.
It would be nice if this happened before the next Carrington Event (or the next nuclear war with orbital EMP weapons.)
I get that, I'm just disagreeing that we should be looking forwards to storage becoming that cheap. Particularly when our cheap energy sources (solar, wind) have a lot of location specific variability over time.
With some exceptions for sufficiently remote (or sufficiently always-sunny and not too dense) places that local grids themselves are no longer worth it