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    7 months ago

    the grid will literally fry itself

    I don’t believe this is true for three reasons.

    #1 it’s glossing over the mechanics of how equipment will get damaged

    #2 the people that own the equipment have ways of managing excess capacity.

    #3 minuscule increases in grid frequency result in devices using power less efficiently, so they use more power. There’s time to adjust power generation in surplus events.