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>“The Achilles heel of wind and solar is provision of adequate storage, at reasonable cost, of power not needed in the middle of the day, but needed when the su
by pydry 4y ago
>“The Achilles heel of wind and solar is provision of adequate storage, at reasonable cost, of power not needed in the middle of the day, but needed when the sun is not shining and/or the wind is not blowing,”
The Achilles heel of this article is that cheap, large scale pumped storage actually does exist (snowy 2, fengning) while the "cheap" SMR it is touting is still a research project still vacuuming up taxpayer subsidies.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoSnowy 2 cost $5 per watt (blown out from initial $1/watt) and already had a bunch of infrastructure. Beats lithium ion by a fair margin for diurnal or longer storage, but hardly a poster child for the process being cheap or on budget. Still cheaper than nuclear though because 1W of storage can serve 2-3W of wind+solar.