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Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries | How we can minimize expensive, ecologically damaging battery storage by changing how we think about energy (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

None of this justifies running the aluminium smelter 24/7 rather than redesigning it slightly and running it 20/6. You're straw manning.

Lowtechmagazine is a meditation on this concept and you are pretending that means anyone thinking this way wants to break into grandma's home and switch off the ventilator in the middle of the night.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm not sure you are straw manning yourself or you have me confused with another comment. I was agreeing with the commenter. Moral consumption of power is a concept I completely accept. But @stabby_cicada did start the argument with this:

The point isn’t that some electricity production is reliable 24/7. The point is, if we want an ethos of reduced consumption, we need to give up the idea that we have the right to power on demand 24-7.

I was answering to that complemented with another comments and agreeing with the whole should use power with a moral attitude. What an aggressive response...