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Everyone seems to want chemical storage of Solar Energy. Everyone keeps looking into batteries and they are not yet sufficient. Why not store the massive amou
by yazaddaruvala 11y ago
Everyone seems to want chemical storage of Solar Energy.
Everyone keeps looking into batteries and they are not yet sufficient.
Why not store the massive amounts of Solar that Southern California receives during the day as clean drinking water?
- ars 11y agoI like this idea very much. Make water only during the day. Water consumption is highest during the day anyway, and water can be stored much easier than electricity.
- chadzawistowski 11y agoI wonder what the amortized cost of solar energy is? It's probably still more expensive than Israel's $6 per million BTU.
- rwallace 11y agoIn a desert with plentiful sunshine for an application where you don't need to worry about distribution and storage, I would expect solar to be quite competitive with even the notional price of fossil fuel. When you compare it with the real price of fossil fuel (i.e. add the negative externality of carbon dioxide emission to the notional price), solar wins by a country mile.
- chadzawistowski 11y agoGood luck finding water to desalinate in the desert!
- rwallace 11y agoMany deserts are within convenient pipeline range of the sea. Including Israel and California, the deserts being discussed here.