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>you can't keep power as inventory Well, you can, you need batteries or suchlike. One of the most interesting effects of adoption of electric cars could be th
by D_Alex 12y ago
>you can't keep power as inventory
Well, you can, you need batteries or suchlike.
One of the most interesting effects of adoption of electric cars could be that their batteries could be used as energy banks, charging when power is cheap and feeding power back to shave peaks off the demand.
Also... Let's build a battery gigafactory in Australia!!
- waps 12y agoBatteries are ~30% efficient. Sending power to end users is ~85-90% efficient (though less, of course, if there's overcapacity, and then it drops very fast). So let's say you'd get 30% * 85% ^ 2 ~= 20% efficiency out of it. If you're talking Australia. Outside of CBDs, why would you so much as bother with a grid connection at all ? Solar panels + a solar boiler + in-house batteries will probably be about as reliable as grid power in Australia. Plus it'd be truly distributed. What we need is a Solarcity company in Australia. (Or, Australia has uranium mines ... why not go nuclear ? Fuel is free)
- D_Alex 12y ago>Batteries are ~30% efficient Citation needed. Lowest claim I recall is "better than 85%". Also, I support nuclear power for Australia. It makes so much sense in a politically and geologically stable location, with plenty of empty spaces. Own fuel supply is icing on cake.
- spacefight 12y ago"politically and geologically" That might not be the case for the runtime of the nuclear power plant. Think 40y ahead. I can't.