Again look at Spain, not all power sources are equal and just because it's been connected to a network doesn't magically mean all of the load is then spread between all sinks.
If your high school science teacher told you so, they were wrong. It's time to talk about proper grown up electronics in this discussion.
No, electronics at scale isn't the same as a 9v and filament bulb. There's real effects which aren't overly observable in a small setup that need to be addressed.
It's like pretending all of compiling is a direct translation to a lower language all the way down. It's not you make changes, adapt and optimise for the language and system you're in not just write Fortran in assembly
I was including the weasel world 'fairly' in front of 'fungible' exactly because I foresaw such a discussion.
To be slightly more precise and wordy in what I wanted to express:
The original comment said:
> Not all energy is carbon intensive. Using a lot of power is fine as long as you get the power in a sustainable way.
And that's true. You can buy 'green electricity' from the grid. But that mostly just means that the people who don't care get allocated a larger fraction of 'non-green' electricity.
(That works, until you lose enough of that buffer of people who don't care where they electricity is coming from, that you have more demand for green electricity than is available on the grid. Then you actually need to spin up more green electricity or raise prices for that 'colour'.)
Yes, there's different demand levels over time (throughout the day, and throughout the year etc), and different demanders need different reliability levels. And all the power sources have different profiles for when they are available, and how easy (or hard or impossible) it is to turn them on or off on short notice.
> If your high school science teacher told you so, they were wrong. It's time to talk about proper grown up electronics in this discussion.
Again look at Spain, not all power sources are equal and just because it's been connected to a network doesn't magically mean all of the load is then spread between all sinks.
If your high school science teacher told you so, they were wrong. It's time to talk about proper grown up electronics in this discussion.