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SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Keeping the electrical grid balanced with varying loads is so hard I’m amazed it works at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's something that's only possible because of the scale a grid works on. It also helps to have generation like hydro, which can ramp up and down very fast.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I believe Florida's recent build-out of utility scale natural gas plants is driven, in part, by their ability to ramp up and down virtually instantly.

    However, the linked story is about a residential neighborhood where lots of homeowners installed individual natural gas powered generators for their homes. Then, when the public grid failed in a hurricane, they all switched on their "whole home, natural gas powered" generators at once for the first time and the natural gas supply to the neighborhood was nowhere near up to the task of delivering all that fuel at that rate.

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