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[-] Turbonics@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

Can they not route excess electricity into the ground?

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

No, unfortunately, you can't.

Ground doesn't typically dissipate power, rather, power is dissipated in the circuit/load


so if you just hook a wire to ground, you're dumping gobs of power into the wire. If you do this in your home (DON'T), best case it will trip the breaker, worst case it will melt and catch something on fire.

It's easy enough to burn a kilowatt


just boil some water. But it's entirely something else to burn megawatt, or yikes, gigawatt scale power.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It seems braindead simple to me to work some controls into an industrial scale solar array to manage its output by regulating its input. Like, rotating the panels to put them out of their optimal alignment with the sun or mechanically partially covering them with shutters.

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Simple but extremely expensive.

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