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Oversupply is easy to burn up -- as long as there's robust and quick mechanisms for signalling when oversupply is going on.

There's plenty of loads that can be quickly spun up -- transferring workload from one datacentre to another is possible, as is running refrigeration systems to generate ice (or some other phase-change material) that can be used up during peak demand.

Anything remaining can be taken care of by bespoke energy storage systems, like batteries or pumped-storage.



Hell you could start using all that surplus energy to turn atmospheric CO2 and N into urea and use that for fertilizer.




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