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In my native Netherlands, in the summertime there's solar, in winter there's is wind. I have a dynamic energy contract, I pay spot prices + taxes and markup. W
by ragebol 3y ago
In my native Netherlands, in the summertime there's solar, in winter there's is wind.
I have a dynamic energy contract, I pay spot prices + taxes and markup. What solar energy I sell in the summer, I can buy in the winter. With our heat pump, I need to generate about twice as much as I did before we had the heat pump, to match it in money (summer is cheaper than winter at the moment). Watt for watt is not a useful measurement IMO, since I can't store Watts, but I can store euros.
- jjoonathan 3y agoThis just assumes someone else fixes the storage/overprovision problem, otherwise energy will get cheaper in the summer and more expensive in the winter until storing euros does not work.
- sigilis 3y agoThat’s what markets are for: someone else will fix the problem because there’s money in it. It’s generally something you can rely on, that someone will try to get their hands on stored euros.
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoThis is literally called magical thinking - there is money in breaking the law of gravity, so what?
- defrost 3y agoAddressing storage | provisioning issues is not breaking the laws of thermodynamics. We're talking aviation industry as a reasonable equivilance here, not magical anti-grav machines. Reddit is really the venue for eponymous comments.
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoActually they are exactly the same thing - seasonal storage with efficiency over 50% is basically magical infinite energy battery. Just like anti-gravity machine, neither breaks the laws of physics, and neither has any known method for an engineer to implement. Currently, you either need preposterous quantity of batteries, or you are stuck creating synthetic/green fuels at efficiencies of ~20% or less.