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by dflock 6184 days ago
Does anyone know - or know how to figure out - how much power is 'stored' at any given time in the globe's power transmission lines? Intuitively, this must be a pretty huge amount - basically 1x the global power consumption at any given instant? Anyone know if there's any/much spare capacity, that could actually be used as a massive distributed battery?