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No interest in storing a season's worth of energy which would be infeasible without a ludicrously over provisioned system. More -what could you do with spare ca
by fbdab103 4y ago
No interest in storing a season's worth of energy which would be infeasible without a ludicrously over provisioned system. More -what could you do with spare capacity that is not trash-tier net metering? Generating liters of fuel weekly would be enough to power my ICE car (I rarely drive). Or being able to generate and store a ~week of liquid backup energy.
Such a system would be unlikely to ever payback for itself. Not deluding myself on that one.
- ajross 4y agoDepending on where you live, simply electrifying your home and driving an EV should be enough to get you within a few percent of your peak summer output. You won't be wasting that much. Buy the heat pump water heater, the induction range, etc... Pick the low hanging fruit, then worry about using that last bit of juice in June. FWIW: net metering seems like "trash tier" precisely because that summer PV excess really is mostly wasted (this is true for big panel farms too). The utilities were taking a huge haircut on the old 1:1 billing that California just rolled back. It wasn't sustainable.
- midasuni 4y agoIf you drive say 300 miles a week that’s 100kWh for a typical electric car. Another 150 for domestic use and that’s 35kwh a day. You have a system that generates more than that if you have excess to pump into liquid storage, but why do you want a weeks worth of backup energy? Why not 3 days? Or 2 weeks?