Post #2399359
2024-12-09 09:56 UTC
@mrchrisadams@mastodon.social 50 KW of power? For comparison, an electrical kettle uses 1 KW of power. If 50 people simultaneously decide to have a tea, they'll have a blackout. Unless they completely spam the sky with those balloons. But a typical city has hundreds of thousands of kettles.
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@mrchrisadams@mastodon.social 2024-12-09 10:22
@photom@mastodon.social I'm using figures from groups like OFGEM (the UK regulator) who track energy usage by households over the year. I used average figures over the year, because most people don't run kettles all at the same time, all 8760 hours of the year. More below: https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/average-gas-and-electricity-usage
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@passwordsarehard4@mastodon.social 2024-12-09 12:07
@photom@mastodon.social @mrchrisadams@mastodon.social you could use a battery. It’s called grid storage and it’s all the rage in renewables. The alternative is to make little “teatime zones” so everyone is spaced out, how are your people at the queue?