Re:“Carbon Bombs” – Mapping key fossil fuel projects
by brnt on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @05:09PM
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Its a decent effort, but to put 4GWh in perspective: my small house requires about 10MWh in heating over the winter. I can reduce that with a heat pump by a factor 4, but that till means the storage is only enough for about 1800 homes.
We need a PWh+ of storage, and we need it in the next decade, and we are nowhere near on schedule.
Re:“Carbon Bombs” – Mapping key fossil fuel projects
by ben_w on Thursday May 19, 2022 @05:06AM
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Very few people need seasonal storage, most people are on a grid connected to somewhere closer to the equator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_synchronous_grid
(And inter-season storage is too high a threshold: not many people are living in the artic/antarctic circles away from grids connecting them to places that still get some sun even in winter).