Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage

Re:Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage by raverbashing on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @03:26AM (#20562769)

> You literally can't store enough energy in batteries to power the network

You need that only when renewable production goes to zero, that happens pretty much never. Your PV production goes to 0 at night but demand is lower at this time.

So yes, it is completely feasible to do battery load averaging if you do the math correctly

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Re:Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage by KUcxrAVrtI on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @04:31AM (#20563072)

One can't run an industrial society on an agrarian power source. If we want to go on a holiday for winter, like the good old days, brilliant. But be honest. And be honest what will happen when China realizes that you can't power the grid and all those military bases only work at 50% efficiency in winter.

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Re:Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage by raverbashing on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @05:56AM (#20563374)

China has the biggest hydroelectric dam in the world, I think they will be just fine (though I'm not sure it does pumped hydro - they probably don't bother).

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Re:Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage by icebraining on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @06:51AM (#20563627)

I think the point was that China would take advantage of the energy weakness of other countries during the winter somehow.

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Re:Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage by Nasrudith on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:48AM (#20563949)

Ironically that is /really/ obsolete thinking. Pax atomica says hi for one.

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Re:Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage by KUcxrAVrtI on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @09:14AM (#20564492)

Nitroglycerin will make war too horrible to fight.

Wonder where I've heard that before.

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