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But it is not available in the night and energy storage is still unsolved mystery. It is like planning a project and ignoring half of issues which will make or
by breadloaf 4y ago
But it is not available in the night and energy storage is still unsolved mystery.
It is like planning a project and ignoring half of issues which will make or break your project.
- mrtksn 4y agoThe storage is not an unsolved mystery at all, we have many methods to store energy. Maybe it's not perfected yet and not optimal and cost effective as we would like it to be yet but it's nowhere near the situation with fusion technology. Unlike the fusion, the science of it is well developed and it boils down to its commercialisation optimisation. Besides, as we are creatures who sleep roughly in sync with the fusion in the sky, we don't really need to have 24/7 constant energy input. Combination of storage and older tech like good old fission energy and natural gas can be enough.
- breadloaf 4y agoStorage is unsolved mystery because it does not work at scale. Try to take any method you like and push it to supply 1GW for 18 hours of winter night. Also there is lot of things going on at night - people are heating their homes or charging their BEVs.
- mrtksn 4y agoIt's an engineering and financial challenge, it's not mystery or anything lime that. The science behind it is well understood.