• @WhatAmLemmy
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    221 hours ago

    I doubt that would be terribly relevant. The lions share of the surplus energy should be predictable based on recent grid data + 24 hour weather forecasts.

    Based on nothing but wikipedia the primary methods for desalination are distillation (boiling) and membrane; neither of which sound like ramp up time would matter.

    • @[email protected]
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      221 hours ago

      Yeah, if time to come online and time to go offline doesn’t matter, then that definitely works.