Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK government

Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by shuntress on Thursday August 27, 2020 @03:49PM (#24297848)

If your goal is to store 100% of all power produced for an entire year for use a later date, then yeah... you would need 50,000+ of those.

If your goal is something not ridiculous, for example, storing storing the difference of production-consumption when production>consumption for use later when consumption>production, you would likely need very significantly less than 50,000+ of those.

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Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by oblio on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:22PM (#24298197)

My point is that these need very specific conditions to actually work and you need a lot of them.

For your average country even having 100 is difficult. Think of some flat place like Poland.

More than that, Germany isn't even the biggest producer/consumer of electricity... Imagine some place like China trying to ramp this up.

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