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finnw on Jan 7, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Power surges in Britain caused by millions of peop...

Does gas not have exactly the same issue? i.e. mains pressure drops when many people in the area are using it at the same time?

ars on Jan 7, 2013 [–]

You can store gas, you can't store electricity.

So it's very easy to buffer gas for things like this.

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