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Night time? But batteries! Several cloudy days in a row? More batteries! Cost? -> a mix of sources becomes attractive
by applied_heat 5mo ago
Night time? But batteries! Several cloudy days in a row? More batteries! Cost? -> a mix of sources becomes attractive
- jgoewert 5mo agoBatteries? You mean like digging a hole/making a wall and pumping water? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taum_Sauk_Hydroelectric_Power_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taum_Sauk_Hydroelectric_Power_... Or we could just spin some rocks around. https://www.torus.co/torus-flywheel https://www.torus.co/torus-flywheel Rather have solar/wind and this than shipping depleting goop from foreign nations.
- typon 5mo agohttps://imgur.com/a/dV8gk3R https://imgur.com/a/dV8gk3R can you find curves like this for any other power source? also batteries are getting exponentially cheap too
- micro2588 5mo agoThese are typically representative of cost performance per watt of one part of a more complex deployed energy system. Things like the aluminum / steal for the container / framing, copper / aluminum for the transmission and wiring, land and labor for installation decline at much less aggressive rates or increase over time. In almost all pareto optimal least cost energy system models that I've seen, high penetration of solar, wind, batteries plus some minority amount of (clean) baseload power is the most capital efficient energy system.