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Yang Ming Mountain's avatar

Like everything else happening in our nation, policies in electric energy supply and transmission are deliberately designed so that energy disasters will be the most likely outcome.

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Bill Chaffee's avatar

Batteries don’t store electricity, they store chemicals which can be reacted to produce electricity. With energy input the reaction can be reversed if it is a storage battery. The reversibility is degraded as the battery is repeatedly charged and discharged.

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Ed Reid's avatar

You are certainly correct, but that is a topic for a different commentary.

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Robert Simmers's avatar

Excellent article, Ed.

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