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Large battery storage I feel in the future can offset the sudden demand giving enough time for nuclear or less carbon producing power to ramp up. We are not the

Large battery storage I feel in the future can offset the sudden demand giving enough time for nuclear or less carbon producing power to ramp up. We are not there yet but I feel as batteries keep getting cheaper and hopefully smaller we will reach a point where homes and business have enough battery power for few hours of their peak use. This could flatten the demand spikes on the networks as well as maybe allow to use solar power when the sun is not out.

rakoo 7y ago
"Storage" is a big word. Methods of storage are not interchangeable with one another. Think about food storage: your shelf doesn't have the same properties as your fridge, which is not the same as your freezer, which is not the same as jars in your basement. It's the same for batteries: they're good for very short periodicity, but fail at anything beyond the week. So you can't store your energy from the summer to use it during the winter, for instance. Your point of view is one of a cornucopian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopian), hoping that it is fine to wait for better days because "surely" progress will arrive. The situation is that we don't have some time to think and wait for innovation, we're already a number of decades late. Why wait for something that might or might not happen, in 5, 10, or 50 years, instead of doing what already works today ?