Re:Hydrogen’s moment is here at last?
by onethought on Sunday October 10, 2021 @05:30PM
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You are effectively saying: the thing we’ve been scaling 100+ years scales better than the things we’ve been scaling for 20 years. I agree.
But, put 100 years of scale into solar/wind/batteries and the world looks very different: we’ll easily have 1 billion BEV and they’ll easily traverse the Nullarbor.
I think scaling looks very different in the renewable space, I think adding 10Kw a billion times over is the better way to scale, and have a truly distributed energy network.
Large scale power generation should be for large scale industry.
If you wired up enough panels around the world… you don’t need a lot of storage (except for balancing) because the sun is always shinning somewhere.
Regardless of what the solution looks like. My original point: drilling, refining and delivering oil globally is no where near the efficiency of local generation and consumption.
But, put 100 years of scale into solar/wind/batteries and the world looks very different: we’ll easily have 1 billion BEV and they’ll easily traverse the Nullarbor.
I think scaling looks very different in the renewable space, I think adding 10Kw a billion times over is the better way to scale, and have a truly distributed energy network.
Large scale power generation should be for large scale industry.
If you wired up enough panels around the world… you don’t need a lot of storage (except for balancing) because the sun is always shinning somewhere.
Regardless of what the solution looks like. My original point: drilling, refining and delivering oil globally is no where near the efficiency of local generation and consumption.