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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • If you go into the detailed explanation (and can read French) they do have some hydraulic pumping included in their “batteries” section.

    In their 100% renewables scénario on a peak consumption (105gw) hour and peak energy production (sun at zenith) they would store the excess production like such:

    • 7.2gw to water pumping
    • 22gw to static batteries
    • 2gw back to the grid (chatting electric vehicles I guess).

    Also even in their most nuclear scenario (50% nuclear, 50% renewables) they still include 7.2gw of water pumping.

    I’m curious of why you put so much value in water pumping? As a Quebecois I have a small notion of how disruptive (flooding of vast areas of land, massive amounts of concrete, dead rivers downstream of the dam ) water reservoirs for hydroelectricity can be and I have a hard time imagining a viable way of relying extensively on that technique.


  • I feel like Inflation is not hitting me as much as my suburban friends. They keep complaining about the big grocery store chain collusion (they got caught increasing bread prices a few years back).

    Where I live there’s line 3 mom&pop produce/pastry/butcher between me and the big chain grocery store. My big chain grocery store is cheaper then other store of the same franchise.

    We built huge expensive highway sso huge corps could build mega stores that killed all the locally owned stores. Now they so what they want.