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Storing wind/solar energy for a long enough duration to prevent long-tail blackouts, while also transitioning buildings to electric heat, is a pretty big techni
by p1mrx 5y ago
Storing wind/solar energy for a long enough duration to prevent long-tail blackouts, while also transitioning buildings to electric heat, is a pretty big technical problem.
- TillE 5y agoPumped hydroelectric storage is a "big" problem in that the scale is large, but it's not particularly complicated. The solutions exist, and they're comfortably boring, and trivially scalable and redundant. Moreover, we're still pretty far from the point where this even becomes an issue. We can accelerate the deployment of renewables a lot before this is a real constraint on anything.