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>You may need to store energy to bridge daily intermittency, And the greatest intermittency is nighttime. Happens every day. Chemical batteries are not cost
by EricE 6y ago
>You may need to store energy to bridge daily intermittency,
And the greatest intermittency is nighttime. Happens every day. Chemical batteries are not cost effective even if we had the resources.
But sure, continue to just hand wave that off.
- kragen 6y agoI didn't handwave it off. Nobody had mentioned the cost-effectiveness of chemical batteries in the thread so far. I wrote a 1000-word essay about the issue two years ago, exploring the resource ramifications, which I linked from the above comment, and this other 600-word essay here which goes into more details on battery costs and expected internal rate of return on batteries under different incentive schemes: https://dercuano.github.io/notes/energy-storage-efficiency.html https://dercuano.github.io/notes/energy-storage-efficiency.h...