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>Greece has immediate access to deep ocean for cheap storage I am curious about what you mean, can you please elaborate?
by krasin 4y ago
>Greece has immediate access to deep ocean for cheap storage
I am curious about what you mean, can you please elaborate?
- amelius 4y agohttps://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/german-institute-successfully-tests-underwater-energy-storage-sphere/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/german-institute-suc...
- chrisco255 4y agoThis is a lab test. HN gets almost daily 'lab test' breakthroughs in batteries and energy tech and yet, turning those breakthroughs into practical, engineered services remains quite elusive.
- FunnyBadger 4y agoIt takes a MINIMUM of 20 years to go from "lab to fab" or "science experiment in a lab to productively useful in real life". Maybe this indicates that clock has started but the requirement for that 20 years is 20 years of fully funded R&D (small R, big D) - otherwise bump the 20 years up to infinity without continuous funding.
- ncmncm 4y agoThat's fine, we don't have enough renewable generating capacity to charge up storage from yet. After will be the right time to build storage. But pumping water and air, driving winches, and building pressure vessels are all mature tech.
- ncmncm 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31543516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31543516
- krasin 4y agoThank you. I was not aware of this approach.