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I guess enabling individual homes to generate/store energy needed to run their home is more scalable than these so called huge beautiful batteries. But for now,
by the_arun 8y ago
I guess enabling individual homes to generate/store energy needed to run their home is more scalable than these so called huge beautiful batteries. But for now, they are good and buy time for innovations in home batteries.
- esturk 8y agoThat's actually one of the points discussed in the article. Investors don't want this to be a temporary solution. Like the Hoover dam system, this should last a century. But they need the economic incentives to be higher priority than home solar storage.
- WalterBright 8y agoA very simple, zero-maintenance, low cost "battery" for storing energy in the home is a chunk of concrete. When power is cheap, heat/cool the chunk. When power is expensive, blow air over the chunk to extract the heat/cool. Such a "battery" could very easily keep the house warm or cool at night depending on the season. What's required to make this work is to vary the cost of electricity to the consumer, which will incentivize such solutions. A pile of rocks can also work.