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Have you come up with some cheap form of electricity storage or are you advocating geosynchronous orbital solar?

• dreamcompiler 4y ago
  I think the human race is about 100x closer to cheap electricity storage than we are to building a useful fusion plant.
  • HereIGoAgain 4y ago
    On a lower end medium time scale maybe.. but the kind of power we're talking about here and needed by society, is still a few discoveries and a few decades away from actually being, let alone being practical on a large scale. And the worst part is that only then does the discussion even begin about adopting, using and manufacturing/installing it at scale. Large scale HUGE capacity electricity storage is a LOT further away than a lot of people and interests are willing to... well.. as we see in europe.. allow for. We are going ahead with the first half of a system that isn't even complete in theory.
    • pfdietz 4y ago
      Large scale electricity storage is just waiting for the economic conditions that would justify rolling it out. Once those conditions arise, storage will pop up like mushrooms after a hard rain, and will move down experience curves, and become cheap. The biggest open question with grid storage is which of the many competing technologies will come out on top.