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A country’s energy policy cannot be predicated on vaporware energy storage technology that is “just around the corner”. The UK is pretty good on renewables due
by fmajid 5y ago
A country’s energy policy cannot be predicated on vaporware energy storage technology that is “just around the corner”. The UK is pretty good on renewables due to wind power, but this year’s relatively low wind combined with gas price spikes has put the country in a very difficult position.
- epistasis 5y agoIt's not "just around the corner," it is shipping today and scaling. It's quite ironic to call shipping storage systems, from the MWh scale to GWh scale, installed all around the globe, "vapor ware" while not pointing out that nobody has ever even shipped an SMR. This sort of double standard when it comes to evaluating technology has been the source of so much bad capital allocation over the next decade. But, if you are willing to call storage vapor ware, I will be sure to call SMRs that from now on.