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Comment Re:It more smart thermostats than battery backup (Score 1) 201

If you have data on the MWh/KWh A/C reductions shave off peak that would be interesting. The Casio site shows explicitly batteries contributing 30% of the grid supply in the evenings. I don't believe you can get there with A/C reductions.

Both help, but my understanding is batteries are far larger in their capacity.

Comment Re:TFA has no supporting data (Score 2) 201

the CASIO site clearly shows batteries providing 30% of grid supply in the evenings just yesterday.

Batteries allow the time shift of midday solar energy surplus to when there's a deficit in the evenings. CA has cut gas peaker usage in the evenings by over 50% in just 5 years.

Comment Re:It more smart thermostats than battery backup (Score 2) 201

Weekly? pretty sure that would make the news.

As for smart thermostats vs batteries - batteries are explicitly listed in the graphs providing 30 percent of evening peak power just yesterday. https://www.gridstatus.io/live...

Smart thermostats definitely help but you'd need millions of houses pre-chilling down to the mid 60s before seeing demand reduction similar to batteries contributions. Most people aren't going to do that.

Comment Re:Summer vs Winter (Score 1) 201

CA has cut gas usage during the duck curve in half in just 5 years.

With the advent of sodium ion batteries for grid scale storage, capacity won't likely be an issue for more than a decade.

More energy hits the earth as solar in an hour than the human race uses, in all forms, in a year (at least before hyperscale data centers anyway).

An 8000:1 surplus. And that's *just* solar.

Comment Re:Fine TiVo you have there. Shame something might (Score 1) 88

yeah, I just programmed the 30 sec skip into the remote and clicked 6 times. SELECT-PLAY-SELECT-3-0-SELECT [ding ding ding] and done.

How many Tivo's are still in use? When the FCC nixed the requirement for offering CableCards, Tivo with any cable subscriber basically became a useless brick.

Tivo for OTA always seemed relatively pointless. Useful but really minimizing that 'useful'

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