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You say, "I've not encountered a communist...", like that is a good thing. Let me fix that for you

I'm a communist. Companies would be better off if they were owned by workers rather than rich people. You know, workers owning the means of production, instead of capitalists?

Hopefully this hasn't ruined your Lemmy experience!

Interesting! Still way too much elevation needed to be useful for us in Holland though. 😆

I totally agree with this. A lot of places have cheap electricity in off-peak hours, as a workaround to this limitation (steady output).

I think that this obsession about intermittent power comes partially from the idea that any new sources of power must be drop-in replacements for the systems that we've had for so many decades. However those systems run the way they do as an accident of technology, not because of a careful analysis and design to match optimal usage patterns.

Pumped hydro works well for storage, although it basically has the same problem as hydro power - it's only available in places with water and elevation changes.