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IMO, for large scale, nothing beats pumped water storage if you have the right conditions for the required lake. No risk of a bad cell causing a fire, no chemic
by sschueller 1y ago
IMO, for large scale, nothing beats pumped water storage if you have the right conditions for the required lake. No risk of a bad cell causing a fire, no chemical degradation, no cooling or heating required and zero to full power within seconds just like a battery.
- fooker 1y agoOne of the few pumped hydro facilities in the US had a catastrophic flood
- morsch 1y agoFor the record, there seem to be about 43 such installations and they make up 93% of commercial energy storage https://cmpesglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Us-Eic-Country-Report.pdf https://cmpesglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Us-Eic-Co... page 31
- labrador 1y agoI should have been more clear. I'm saying sodium ion will be chosen when litium ion otherwise would have. We have a large battery at Moss Landing CA where I live. When those batteries need replacing, I'd bet they'll use sodium ion.
- _carbyau_ 1y agoSure. But batteries are needed for "more" and "location". If a sodium battery is heavy and bigger but used for gridscale then that'll work fine.
- pjc50 1y ago> if you have the right conditions for the required lake. Yes, but you don't. Those conditions are really scarce. And in the UK they're all either nature reserves or already used for this purpose.