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Originally Posted by Acey
If "oh hai guys, emergency power crisis" forced onto every phone in the province only dumped around 100-200 MW, i.e. 1% of Alberta's capacity, it sounds like the problem is not solved.
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It literally solved the problem. We were facing rolling brown outs. They sent a text telling us to curb our electricity usage. We did. Problem was over.
And that was with two minutes of notice.
Now imagine if we made a concerted effort to curb usage and had the benefit of some time to plan and prepare. There is no reason for all the lights to be on downtown. There should be a button every mall can hit to use half the lights they normally use during peak times. We should normalize heating homes to 18 degrees and just wearing sweaters. Electric cars don't need to go 0-60 in two seconds...why aren't they detuned with less power and therefore require smaller battery packs?
I mean, dude. I don't get you lol.