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Good to see progress in large-scale energy sources. As always we ideally would like to know current and prospective costs per MWh of storage, per MW of capacity
by acidburnNSA 7y ago
Good to see progress in large-scale energy sources. As always we ideally would like to know current and prospective costs per MWh of storage, per MW of capacity, round-trip efficiency, raw material mass flows and recyclability, and space requirements to fully judge. I understand that these metrics are not always reliably available in new issue tech. We should make a worksheet or something to help navigate these complex issues.
At least more people are talking about hydrogen as an energy carrier these days as opposed to a raw energy source, which was a huge misconception in the hydrogen excitement bubble of ~2005.
And a nitpick: headline should be about storing intermittent energy, not renewable energy. I personally hate the term renewable because not all renewable energy is low-carbon (e.g. most biofuels) and not everything that's sustainable for hundreds of millions of years is considered renewable (e.g. nuclear with breeder reactors or seawater uranium extraction).