28-11-24, 02:06 AM
@fazerscotty
Remember the days when making a phone call on a landline cost less in the afternoon and even cheaper after 6pm or on weekends to encourage people not to use the system when it was busiest?
Supply is not necessarily "intermittent", nor will storage have to be "expensive and unreliable", what we need is a simple change of mindset in the way people use electricity.
It's similar to the way that people switching to EVs from petrol needed to change their way of thinking from "drive until the tank is nearly empty, then fill up" which caused them to complain that it took ages to charge their car back to full and, instead, drive half the distance, charge up so they have enough in the battery to get them to their destination with a safe margin, then charge up again whilst they're doing what they need to do after they arrive.
Remember the days when making a phone call on a landline cost less in the afternoon and even cheaper after 6pm or on weekends to encourage people not to use the system when it was busiest?
Supply is not necessarily "intermittent", nor will storage have to be "expensive and unreliable", what we need is a simple change of mindset in the way people use electricity.
It's similar to the way that people switching to EVs from petrol needed to change their way of thinking from "drive until the tank is nearly empty, then fill up" which caused them to complain that it took ages to charge their car back to full and, instead, drive half the distance, charge up so they have enough in the battery to get them to their destination with a safe margin, then charge up again whilst they're doing what they need to do after they arrive.