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Cake day: August 25th, 2023

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  • Yeah, I’ve heard that one before, it is an exception. Even if true (there are ways to design aluminum plants to work around that, or use hydro power or wind or some other baseload) but not for most processes that are labour-intensive or even energy-expensive things like dessalination.

    The other excuse I’ve seen was that nobody designs a factory to only output 30% of the time…but you operate on residual electricity costs for a few hours a day.