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Pumped hydro is the only way, really. Coire glas, snowy 2, fengning, etc. The problem isnt so much the scale or cost, just the amount of time it takes to commi
by pydry 4y ago
Pumped hydro is the only way, really. Coire glas, snowy 2, fengning, etc.
The problem isnt so much the scale or cost, just the amount of time it takes to commission and build them. You can deploy a solar farm in months, but pumped storage is like building a dam. It takes several years.
There also isnt a lot of point to storage unless you turn the gas off sometimes and I think we basically never do even at the sunniest and windiest. Not yet.
We should have been preparing for this for years rather than letting Putin pull the rug out from under our feet.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoPumped storage is in the same category as nuclear. If it's already built then we might as well use it as long as it's not about to collapse, but any new build is probably dubious from a cost benefit angle. There's some articles going over the numbers for Snowy 2 and it'll probably be a bad investment overall.
- deepdriver 4y agoPumped hydro isn't feasible everywhere, you really need the right geologic conditions.
- pydry 4y agoIt's feasible in most places. You can also usually run power lines to the ones where it isnt. Europe is essentially already using the alps as a battery.
- xienze 4y ago> We should have been preparing for this for years rather than letting Putin pull the rug out from under our feet. Not to be that guy, but one does have to wonder what European leaders were thinking was going to happen after sanctioning a major source of their oil and natural gas.
- jackmott42 4y agoThey knew what would happen, but felt it was necessary. The other risk is Russia knocking on your door next if you let them walk over Ukraine.