Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener...
by 8bitsrule on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @08:55PM
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"Wind/solar are intermittent and there's no way around that (battery storage isn't nearly mature enough)"
One way 'around that' is to use gravity storage -- of which dozens of examples already exist around the world. China has at least 21 pumped-hydro facilities (19GW capacity [0], working on 30GW more [1]) and Britain's been using one for 'tea-time' demands for decades.
'Waiting for batteries' is decisively not a useful argument. They're very far from the most economical and environmentally-friendly storage.
One way 'around that' is to use gravity storage -- of which dozens of examples already exist around the world. China has at least 21 pumped-hydro facilities (19GW capacity [0], working on 30GW more [1]) and Britain's been using one for 'tea-time' demands for decades.
'Waiting for batteries' is decisively not a useful argument. They're very far from the most economical and environmentally-friendly storage.
[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/chinas-amb...
[1] https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201901/09/WS5c353bb7a3106860...