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Tesla batteries might not solve the storage problem on their own, but there are plenty of additional ways to store energy. Imho up until recently, we didn't ev
by freeflight 9y ago
Tesla batteries might not solve the storage problem on their own, but there are plenty of additional ways to store energy.
Imho up until recently, we didn't even have that much incentive to research and innovate on large-scale energy storage (outside of storing it as fossil fuels), as we would just generate it when we needed it, so no real need to store it, no need to innovate on that front.
But with the abundance of energy created by renewables, we will need to rethink our approach to energy production and consumption, putting more of a focus on storage than was needed before.
- Xixi 9y agoIndeed, I was specifically talking about batteries. But there are many other ways to store energy. They don't even need to be as efficient as batteries, as long as they are cheap/scalable. Found an interesting study after some googling: https://www.lazard.com/media/438042/lazard-levelized-cost-of-storage-v20.pdf https://www.lazard.com/media/438042/lazard-levelized-cost-of...