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No one has ever built electricity storage in the required capacity. You are seriously underestimated the required capacity to just store electricity for one da
by cbmuser 6y ago
No one has ever built electricity storage in the required capacity.
You are seriously underestimated the required capacity to just store electricity for one day in an industrial country.
There is a reason why Germany is massively build new gas plants and building a second pipeline to Russia (Nordstream 2).
- epistasis 6y agoWe are building our massive energy stowage factories. Car companies are scrambling to create supply chains. This is happening really fast. Since I did not estimate the amount of energy to store for a day, I don't know why you think I underestimated it. If you think we will turn off all generation for an entire day, ignoring solar and wind and hydro resources, and just run off batteries for no good reason, I'm not sure why you would think that. What is the real resin that Germany is building gas plants? And how do they justify new gas plants, economically, in this day and age? They will be stranded assets in a few years, so it sounds like corruption or ignorance. Surely the economics can't be so different there than what exists in this Rocky Mountain Institute analysis of US costs, where we have super cheap gas? > We find that the natural gas bridge is likely already behind us, and that continued investment in announced gas projects risks creating tens of billions of dollars in stranded costs by the mid-2030s, when new gas plants and pipelines will rapidly become uneconomic as clean energy costs continue to fall. https://rmi.org/a-bridge-backward-the-risky-economics-of-new-natural-gas-infrastructure-in-the-united-states/ https://rmi.org/a-bridge-backward-the-risky-economics-of-new...