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The UK has incredible wind resources, but just look at the variability of output: https://gridwatch.co.uk/Wind https://gridwatch.co.uk/Wind The question is wh
by jl6 5y ago
The UK has incredible wind resources, but just look at the variability of output:
https://gridwatch.co.uk/Wind https://gridwatch.co.uk/Wind
The question is whether the UK can build nuclear faster than they can build sufficient battery capacity to smooth out all that wind power. Neither will be easy.
- 7952 5y agoThere is a lot of battery storage projects in the pipeline now, about 20GW. They are mass producable, modular, can be containerised and built very quickly. And we need to scale up battery production anyway for electric cars. If humanity had a tech tree batteries would be a major branch. It is definitely worth pursuing and is not a zero-sum games with nuclear. And the costs have been dropping already quite a bit. It even has the potential to help cover unpredictable nuclear plant downtime.