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If you have a grid, it's not an issue to rely on powerplants for that. Your biggest consumption/production variance is within 24 hours.
by baybal2 6y ago
If you have a grid, it's not an issue to rely on powerplants for that.
Your biggest consumption/production variance is within 24 hours.
- Scoundreller 6y agoDepends how close to the poles you get.
- pjc50 6y agoThis is why I made a graph: https://flatline.org.uk/daystats.html https://flatline.org.uk/daystats.html (click top graph for intraday detail). It's both, really, but then I am fairly far north. There's a three month period of daily production being <20% of summer peak.
- baybal2 6y agoUh, you must be living quite far up north! There are people living there, wow! (Snobbery of a man who used to live in tropics.) Just joking. Though, 26 vs 0.15 kwh variance is still nothing in comparison to the worst daily production on record, and nil you get at night. Well, can only say that there is nothing even imaginable on the horizon to being practical for seasonal scale energy storage. Even for a small country as UK, you will need a small ocean to store enough energy for one season worth of consumption.