alt Hacker NewsGoogle and all these other companies can't tolerate variable output. They need to be running 24/7 to even have a snowball's chance in hell of financially breaking even. But if they could do that, they'd just put the solar panels on their own roof.
Google and all these other companies can't tolerate variable output. They need to be running 24/7 to even have a snowball's chance in hell of financially breaking even. But if they could do that, they'd just put the solar panels on their own roof.
This point of this whole concept is about getting better about dealing with variable production. It seeks to better-fit flexible demands against production variations, and thereby smooth things out.
(...which is actually really good for all of us even if we're not active participants in the game, as far as I can tell.)