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> will use spare green energy to compress air into a liquid and store it. Is that really right? It's not just green energy sources that benefit from energy-sto
by MaxBarraclough 6y ago
> will use spare green energy to compress air into a liquid and store it.
Is that really right? It's not just green energy sources that benefit from energy-storage. Fossil-fuel plants and nuclear plants prefer to run at a constant output, but demand varies depending on the time of day.
See the 'Duck curve' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
- pjc50 6y agoThis seems like useless pedantry on the word "green", no? The electric field is not coloured, you can't really attribute grid power to a specific source sensibly. Coal is almost entirely gone from the UK. Nuclear does indeed prefer to run at constant output, but almost all the remaining fossil generation in the UK is CCGT which can ramp up and down fairly quickly.