From liquid air to supercapacitors, energy storage is poised for a breakthrough

Re:From liquid air to supercapacitors, energy storage is poi... by dtparr on Friday February 05, 2016 @03:14PM (#11044282)

Given that it's never noon/midnight across the entire country, do you mean that at each point independently, usage is double at local noon vs. local midnight, or do you mean that there exists a single point in time where usage is double another point across the whole country?

If the former, if we had a better CONUS-wide grid, that could distribute power East/West more efficiently, how much would that help?

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Re:From liquid air to supercapacitors, energy storage is poi... by dragontamer on Friday February 05, 2016 @04:47PM (#11044897)

Each point independently, although the ratio can be as low as 1.5x during winter (summer air conditioning is a big problem).

East / West power distribution won't help too much, because there's only a 4-hour difference. The specific load curves of New England (which is only 1.5x load peak vs bottom at the moment... more typical of winter conditions) can be found here: http://www.iso-ne.com/

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