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Spooky23 on Dec 29, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: A new generation of environmentalists is learning ...

Peak load is aligned with sunlight.

Depending on where you live, many of the on-demand power generators like gas and solar farms are idle.

ThomPete on Dec 30, 2018 [–]

Not if you go to Scandinavia.

toomuchtodo on Dec 30, 2018 | [–]

Which is what HVDC transmission lines are for to other countries with disparate low/zero carbon energy sources.

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