Okay. It's called plumbing. Not everyone lives on a farm just because they need food. I know from first-hand experience that it's to dump shit into the water. The EPA fines intentionally remain less than the cost of proper disposal, meaning it's cheaper to dump waste into waterways.
This wasn't always a battery power plant, as its quite an old power plant, this used to be a more contemporary steam based power plant, and it might still be (I forget what the fuel source was, could've been gas, could've been coal, could've been something else feel free to look it up I am not able to at the moment, but point being most of our power generation is literally: how can we boil water efficiently to spin a turbine), and like every contemporary that requires a constant and steady source of water.
Its also very different then farming, a farm isn't in danger of literally self destructing because it went a day without water, but a power plant very well might so it would have to shut down in that event. This has a much more immediate and very drastic effect...because now the neighborhood (or much more, thanks to the joys of grid balancing) just lost power if there was no backup sources to deal with it.
The chemical flammability is not the only disadvantage. The energy density is still very low in comparison to traditional fuel sources. Solid state batteries look promising (and also addresses the chemical fires problem), but we're not going to see them in mass market for maybe another 3-5 years.
Seems like California are making it easier to film season 2 of the Fallout TV show with their incompetence /s
This has just shown how much of a liability relying on batteries is, it is only a stop gap at best till we develop fusion or better utilise hydrogen.
Notice how they always place the most toxic plants near major water ways?
Now in addition to the wind streams, all the pollution that lands on the water is going to be taken downstream to other communities.
That is because they usually need water for coolant purposes or steam generation.
Okay. It's called plumbing. Not everyone lives on a farm just because they need food. I know from first-hand experience that it's to dump shit into the water. The EPA fines intentionally remain less than the cost of proper disposal, meaning it's cheaper to dump waste into waterways.
Its a bit more complicated then that.
This wasn't always a battery power plant, as its quite an old power plant, this used to be a more contemporary steam based power plant, and it might still be (I forget what the fuel source was, could've been gas, could've been coal, could've been something else feel free to look it up I am not able to at the moment, but point being most of our power generation is literally: how can we boil water efficiently to spin a turbine), and like every contemporary that requires a constant and steady source of water.
Its also very different then farming, a farm isn't in danger of literally self destructing because it went a day without water, but a power plant very well might so it would have to shut down in that event. This has a much more immediate and very drastic effect...because now the neighborhood (or much more, thanks to the joys of grid balancing) just lost power if there was no backup sources to deal with it.
Build them next to sewage stations.
There is no downstream - the power plant is literally across the road from the harbour.
The chemical flammability is not the only disadvantage. The energy density is still very low in comparison to traditional fuel sources. Solid state batteries look promising (and also addresses the chemical fires problem), but we're not going to see them in mass market for maybe another 3-5 years.