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Outside of pumped hydro, storage is very expensive. Would need something like a 15x reduction in storage costs to be competitive with nuclear.
by jahewson 5y ago
Outside of pumped hydro, storage is very expensive. Would need something like a 15x reduction in storage costs to be competitive with nuclear.
- cm2187 5y agoAnd where do you build that hydro? I hear some people suggesting Europe using the valleys in Sweden and Norway. Imagine the EU electricity grid at the mercy of one of Putin’s submarines. The rest of Europe doesn’t have many valleys left to flood.
- flor1s 5y agoLuckily Putin would never capture a nuclear plant.
- cm2187 5y agoHe needs to pass through NATO forces and successfully prove the nuclear deterence wrong before you need to start worrying about that.
- ncmncm 5y agoAll you really need for pumped hydro is a hill. It's cheaper if there is a natural basin up there, but you can build sides of you need to.
- tenuousemphasis 5y agoAnd pumped hydro isn't a panacea either. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/11/pump-up-the-storage/ https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/11/pump-up-the-storage/
- pfdietz 5y agoThat's nonsense. https://model.energy/ https://model.energy/
- ComradePhil 5y agoWould the people who built this cross a river which used to have an average depth of 5 feet in 2011 with a medival knight suit on? If yes, they should do that. If no, they should take the website down and stop misleading people.
- pfdietz 5y agoThe argument you are trying to make there completely fails to defend the claim that storage need to be 15x cheaper for renewables to compete with nuclear.