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Pump it to the storage. Building something like https://www.energyvault.com/products/g-vault-gravity-energy-storage https://www.energyvault.com/products/g-vault
by delamon 1y ago
Pump it to the storage. Building something like https://www.energyvault.com/products/g-vault-gravity-energy-storage https://www.energyvault.com/products/g-vault-gravity-energy-... is impossible for a home owner. But the country scale energy provider can build such thing.
- kleiba 1y agoGreat idea, but that also comes at an additional cost - who would you recommend should pay for that cost?
- Dylan16807 1y agoStorage comes at a cost, but storing cheap/free power offsets even bigger generation costs. So the power company should pay to build storage. There's a point where the grid has so much solar power that we need to start shedding production as a general rule and not just as an intermittent temporary measure, but I don't think we're anywhere near that point.
- cduzz 1y agoTechnically almost all homes have a wonderful energy storage system already -- their hot water heater tank. One can imagine a setup where you've got a hot water tank and a mixing valve that allows you to heat your water up to some very high temperature and then mix that down to "safe" hot water for the house. Have that run in "heat from grid if below this threshold, otherwise conditionally heat with surplus energy if the water's below this temperature"