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>It's simply not true we cannot store energy. Which grid can store enough energy to run for a week if all renewables are offline? Hint: there aren't any.
by thrown_22 4y ago
>It's simply not true we cannot store energy.
Which grid can store enough energy to run for a week if all renewables are offline?
Hint: there aren't any.
- Gibbon1 4y agoShow me a week in the last two years when California's renewables didn't produce any power https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html
- js8 4y agoThis is partly because massive energy storage (on the order of weeks) isn't really needed until you hit around 75% intermittent renewables (wind and solar), which is not yet the case anywhere in the world. But the technology does exist, and it's gonna be deployed eventually.
- thrown_22 4y ago>But the technology does exist, and it's gonna be deployed eventually. [[citation needed]]