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[–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That relies on them not already being full and enough of them existing

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

shit like this burns power fast if you need to clear capacity. just ground it. i'm not that smart of an engineer and this is not that hard of a problem. the hard part is the grid, the interconnectedness, the load balancing, and that's already done.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That would actually be sci-fi as fuck, and I'm now 100% for it. I want power plants to have constantly zapping Tesla coils

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i was mostly just thinking arc gap sparking bullshit but tesla coils playing music for the workers and running the PA system. yesss now we are cooking

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 21 hours ago

Reverse lightning rods.