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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by spangry on Thursday December 22, 2016 @06:40AM (#13236602)
Me too. I recently read about these hybrid battery-capacitor thingies that sounded pretty promising. I'll see if I can dig up the link.

EDIT: here we go - http://www.nature.com/articles/srep04315 . Lithium iron phosphate batteries (LiFePO).

Although I'm assuming this particular combination doesn't provide favourable enough economics (or it would probably be a household name already), I can definitely see how this approach in general could. You could have the best of both worlds: cheap, but slow charge/discharge storage combined with the ability to very quickly scale up to meet peak daily demand for a limited (but sufficient) period of time.

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