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Yes, and plenty of companies are doing just that. The effect is that as they charge the batteries, they increase demand and that increases the electricity price a bit. Grid doesn’t tip over and everybody wins!

Trouble is that at some point they run out of batteries. Batteries are expensive. And when they run out of batteries, the demand drops and the grid has to figure out where to dump the excess. And the price drops again.

Pumped hydro is a more scalable solution, but it’s slow to react and even that has its limits.

I think I read that the pro-car candidate in second place there was wanting to change that. Edit: Oh, or do you mean that there’s still too much cars around that they all get stuck in traffic? Yeah I can imagine.

Quality shitpost

Plus, who’s age are they going to use for the root user on 99% of the servers in the world?

They don’t care about those, unless they happen to be owned and operated by an individual, because those generate valuable data and concretely tying it down to a specific person would be a gold mine. And by they I don’t mean the politicians, but the marketing lizards and control freaks (cough cough Peter Thiel) who’s bidding the politicians are doing.

Huh, I wonder how it compares to that other country to the west there.