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Re:World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper T... by sqeaky on Thursday December 15, 2016 @11:07PM (#13190993)
I would tend to agree that solid state is better than moving parts for reliability, but we have been building trains for like 150 years and the parts here that move seem to be just really big weights. We also don't have batteries that can do city scale storage economically, but a series of trains seems intuitively do-able. This is just intuition so could be wrong, but trains seem so simple.
Re:World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper T... by state_less on Thursday December 15, 2016 @11:55PM (#13191176)
Trains are not reducing in price like lithium batteries are. Lithium battery prices are coming down yearly. If it continues at this rate, I think we'll have a story like this about energy storage in 5-10 years where the price makes renewable storage the goto choice for general energy needs. That would be awesome, planet earth could use some good news like that.