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hunter

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7. If batteries were a viable solution and you have good solar exposure on your home...

Reply to CoopersDad (Reply #6)

Mon Nov 11, 2024, 06:30 PM

Nov 2024

... you could quit the electricity and gas grids right now. Cut them off at the service connection, take out those annoying gas and electric meters with a sledge hammer. Banks would lend you money to do it.

Have you?

The math on this one is the same at any scale.

The synergies we were promised were illusions.

At this moment East Denmark is at 361g CO₂eq / kWh

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DK-DK2

Wind is a failure. Sort of like all those endless "carbon capture" schemes in its efficacy.

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