Jaeden Schaefer

The solution in the past for that has been battery storage, and today is battery storage.

The solution in the past for that has been battery storage, and today is battery storage.

This definitely helps, but it definitely is not a full replacement because batteries paired with solar can cover, you know, definitely a few hours of demand, but they are still limited for long duration loads.

This definitely helps, but it definitely is not a full replacement because batteries paired with solar can cover, you know, definitely a few hours of demand, but they are still limited for long duration loads.

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Something that I had an experience with when I was growing up, I sailed from California to the South Pacific on a sailboat, which we largely were powering by solar.

Something that I had an experience with when I was growing up, I sailed from California to the South Pacific on a sailboat, which we largely were powering by solar.

And, you know, we would have times where we'd have a storm blow over for like four or five days of really cloudy and our batteries were completely depleted.

And, you know, we would have times where we'd have a storm blow over for like four or five days of really cloudy and our batteries were completely depleted.

It was really scary because all of our like an autopilot navigation systems, all of our charts, like, you know, everything we're running on our ship was depleted.

It was really scary because all of our like autopilot navigation systems, all of our charts, like, you know, everything we're running on our ship was depending on these batteries and the solar and it was all starting to glitch out and stopped working.

depending on these batteries in the solar, and it was all starting to glitch out and stopped working.

And you know, lucky for us, the storms passed, we've recharged our batteries and moved on.

And you know, lucky for us, the storms passed, we've recharged our batteries, we moved on.

But this has always kind of been something that's reminded me that while these are amazing, you know, options, we use solar panel for like a whole year on this ship, it's not always sustainable, you do need, I think, multiple facets, multiple types of energy to power this stuff.

But this has always kind of been something that's reminded me that while these are amazing, you know, options, we use solar panel for like a whole year on this ship, it's not always sustainable, you do need, I think, multiple facets, multiple types of energy to power this stuff.

I think for a lot of these kind of data centers, it's going to be the same thing.

I think for I think for a lot of these kind of data centers, it's going to be the same thing when a weather event happens.

When a weather event happens or there's a really prolonged, you know, cloudy period, you still need very consistent solid energy.