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Vistra's battery storage facility goes up in flames, spurs evacuation orders (www.yahoo.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Yeah, I think massive chemical batteries for storing excess electricity to facilitate a contrived green energy market is a bad idea.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (41 children)

What are the alternatives?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Pumped hydro

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, it's not, at least not at scale, because you need specific geography and plenty of water. Why do you think we are not massively using it?

[–] tehWrapper 2 points 2 days ago

Can prob dig a whole system the same as they did to get all the materials for this mess.

The water would also not be useless like all the water used to process the battery materials.

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