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That's all good for home use, but what about industries?

How will an industry that uses 1-10MW of power be able to stay operating when power is unstable?

There was an article a while back about some company where the machines needed 6 hours or so to reboot after losing power. That's a whole shift lost if the line goes down. Just stupid.

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Brown outs are often more dangerous to equipment than full blown outage. Itll be equipment replacement and lost production

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Just what (((they))) want. Kill more industry in the US and drive it overseas.

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Plastic extruder machines are like that, but six hours is more of a minimum figure in those cases; it takes that long just to fresh start or change material and spec. An outage is worse. You have to separate the whole line into quadrants on the track it sits on, disassemble the die- which can be held together with hundreds of bolts, cut all the shit out of it, reassemble the die and machine line, restart the line, and wait for it to achieve consistency (5+hrs of wasted material). I used to do lab work and maintenance in one of those factories, and have seen extruding lines take two full days to become operational again after a mishap.

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It's going to be interesting when people figure out even with solar panels they have to reduce their energy consumption by 75%. All the people in the south no more air conditioner for you. No more gaming pc with 2 giant energy sucking graphics cards and 32 processors for the gamers. When the reality of it hits i bet the lib progs are the first to complain.

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The only feasible alternative for the future is exactly as President Trump Postulated. We need micro-sized nuclear reactors. Power density just doesnt convert nicely to physical volume currently. We just need better battery technology.

Double edge sword on this one. Energy independence is a good thing for the consumer, however, no way will the govt will leave (look at Jersey) energy independent residents alone