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> ...until mass grid-scale battery or some sort of energy storage device is deployed... I'm not confident we'll ever see anything of the sort. Just based on t
by bonesss 8y ago
> ...until mass grid-scale battery or some sort of energy storage device is deployed...
I'm not confident we'll ever see anything of the sort. Just based on the scale of current/projected electricity usage we're talking pyramid++ level projects.
Assuming we did have reasonable grid-scale storage, though, we'd bump into a pretty painful issue: the climate crisis is one of energy of which electricity is just a portion.
We don't just need grid scale storage, we need storage to handle gridS for low carbon synthetic fuels, shipping, and air travel. We know what that looks like for fission: approx 10 times current reactor numbers. We have no idea what that looks like for WWS...
- gwbas1c 8y agoNuclear power requires grid-scale storage. The power output can't vary much, so excess needs to be stored for when there's a shortage.
- bonesss 8y agoNo it does not. The power output can cary massively, especially with multiple reactors, and there are verified designs that are inherently load-following. You build nuclear capacity to demand, including peaker plants and such, you do not (and in all probability can not), try and store your way through peak demand.