This is the exact scenario they are being used in at scale. The company removes their gas peaker plant infrastructure and replaces them with batteries. Already have the grid interconnect and now can dispatch power on the millisecond level instead of hour level.
Am I supposed to believe that a deputy executive editor at the Atlantic, one who was invited as an outside expert to comment on the tough question about what the shared national story might be was unaware that the word "patriotism" has some negative connotations?
They have more utility solar than California as of last year in absolute terms, they're second if you include distributed behind the meter solar which California has more of.
Texas also lead in absolute amounts of wind, gas and coal. They have a lot of generation.
That makes sense. It's hard to appreciate the scale of these things without understanding that Texas, although the less populous of the two states, uses far more energy, and in particular far more grid electricity, because of their climate, the energy intensity of their economy, their ideological opposition to energy efficiency mandates, and their relative lack of small-scale, distributed, behind-the-meter generation and storage.
I don't know what weird agenda politico has here but talking so much about how salt is used to make PVC while downplaying the other input of ethylene (made from imported oil and gas) feels really weird.
As does talking about various existing trade policies and carbon markets but not mentioning Carbon Border Adjustments.
From the article
"PVC manufacturing is an energy-intensive process, and electricity prices are higher in Europe than in the U.S. or China."
"It’s an energy-intensive process — Vynova’s plant uses as much electricity as the entire city of Antwerp — and EU electricity prices for industry are double those paid by its U.S. and Chinese competitors.
The European chemicals sector, like other energy-intensive industries, is also subject to one of the world’s highest carbon prices under the EU Emissions Trading System — currently around €75 per ton of CO2. The industry complains that this adds extra costs that Chinese competitors don’t face."
The Chinese don't have cost advantage in the input cost of ethylene (made from imported oil and gas), but they very much have cost advantage in the energy costs.
Plastics and organic chemicals are not covered by Carbon Border Adjustments.
1. Support an anti-intellectual fascist.
2. Have them cancel lots of basic science, run up debt and hand you part of the country's future income as tax cuts.
3. Use the tax cuts to do basic science privately
4. Get hailed as a hero of science
Israeli newspaper quoting NYT article with sources within Israel intelligence confirms this:
> The Times reported that Barnea’s predecessor, Yossi Cohen, viewed regime change in Iran as unlikely and deemphasized the Mossad’s work on that project, instead working on ways to weaken the regime through sanctions and targeted assassinations of nuclear scientists.
> But Barnea has adopted the opposite approach, directing the agency’s energies toward regime change over the past year
They claim they would have won even more without the cheating when they win.
There's no downside for them to make these claims and plenty of upside if it enables them to take control of elections, rile up their base, maybe provoke a violent insurrection or two.
That's evening peaker gas plants in most places. After batteries push gas out of that market they go on to morning peaks and so on.
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