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Ok, then we can use hydrogen, or thermal storage, or non-litium chemistry batteries. The point is that there are many ways to store energy. The fact that there
by Workaccount2 3y ago
Ok, then we can use hydrogen, or thermal storage, or non-litium chemistry batteries.
The point is that there are many ways to store energy. The fact that there isn't enough lithium or not enough hydro sites doesn't change much.
- mrmlz 3y agoThe problem is scale. Since the other responder didnt want to do napkin math - you could give it a go w.r.t to hydrogen. It gets very very expensive rather quickly. So very expensive you might start to wonder if you shouldn't have built a nuclear plant instead. Local factories etc. might see a need/use for hydrogen production (Swedish Hybrit comes to mind) but as a national grid stabilizer.. I'm doubtful
- bluGill 3y agoThey all have something in common: they are very expensive at the scale we need. Hydro is one off the cheapest we have, and if you had a good location you would still be looking at hundreds of millions of dollars (or likely billions!) to build it.