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If it rains for a week?
by 6nf 5y ago
If it rains for a week?
- Retric 5y agoThe pithy answer is “That’s why people build them in deserts.” However, electric grids need excess capacity spread across large areas for when demand spikes and stuff breaks. Luckily peak demand doesn’t line up with wide scale rain as AC demand falls. Also, PV unlike concentrated solar does produce power during storms it’s just significantly less than normal.
- OneTimePetes 5y agoReminder that other "low value energy demand" is easy bufferable - one can easy heat water in a isolated ground tank with excess solar and use that storage in winter.
- MagnumOpus 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_thermal_energy_storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_thermal_energy_storag...