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This is a fantastic initiative. Hopefully all parties subscribe to this.

It's win win for all involved. Only power companies would be against this.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those systems more or less completely charged and discharged in each corner from memory, there wasn't all that much energy in the system.

The only realistic use case I can think of would be keeping power on long enough for a generator to spin up. Otherwise you'd have a moving part with a scary amount of inertia that needs routine maintenance, and otherwise just sits there.

[–] NoRamyunForYou@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

True. Does sound like a lot of maintenance and dangerr