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I’m not sure if there’s a been a study done, but it’s interesting to see some potential solutions to the intermittency problem and how close they’d get the worl
by patrickk 3y ago
I’m not sure if there’s a been a study done, but it’s interesting to see some potential solutions to the intermittency problem and how close they’d get the world to a completely green grid.
Orientating solar panels differently than simply south facing to better match usage patterns: https://youtu.be/LqizLQDi9BM?si=4uqsRO3qEGfm4Yxr https://youtu.be/LqizLQDi9BM?si=4uqsRO3qEGfm4Yxr
Building out a “supergrid”, like what’s already happening across Europe. Balance intermittent supply across a wide geographical area. There’s always wind blowing somewhere, Iceland has massive, 24/7 geothermal that’s not yet connected to mainland Europe, Southern Europe has huge solar potential, and so on. The UK has a project to get 8% of its electric demand from a massive solar/wind/battery project built in Morocco linked via undersea cable to the UK.
Finally, batteries. Lifepo4 batteries are constantly dropping in price. We haven’t seen a huge deployment of Chinese sodium ion batteries for homes yet, but it’s coming.
And that’s not touching on some of the other possible solutions.