Nuclear is back on the table for a green future

Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by nine_k on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @05:59PM (#31759989)

There is a number of battery chemistries more cheap and even efficient than Lithium-based, but with lower energy density. High energy density is important for handheld devices, for flying devices, even for cars. But stationary energy storage can be much heavier and bulkier per kWh stored, as long as it's cheaper, and can sustain more than a few thousand recharge cycles.

Lithium batteries have the momentum and are dropping in price because of the EV cars revolution happening right now. When solar revolution will happen i utility scale, the utility-type batteries that will emerge may be seriously different.

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Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by belorn on Thursday June 16, 2022 @09:56AM (#31766080)

Since you are 100% certain that such technology will emerge in an economical viable state to solve the storage problem for Europe, could you please provide a date so we can draft a EU law that forbids burning of fossil fuel in the European market by that date.

If you can do it by this winter it would solve inflation, enable a complete sanction packet against Russian oil and gas, solve several political conflicts within EU in regard to the Ukraine war, eliminate the food shortage problem and significant reduce the cost of farming, make a large dent in reducing global warming, improve GDP, and boost prosperity in general.

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Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by nine_k on Thursday June 16, 2022 @06:40PM (#31771898)

Alternative chemisitries are many, and are actively developed; here's a 2021 overview: https://www.mining.com/non-lithium-battery-chemistries-to-gr...

What I can't predict is when some of them will become competitive enough to matter, and thus used in some large infrastructure projects.

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Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by adrianN on Friday June 17, 2022 @05:09AM (#31775787)

If we had completely free, 100% efficient grid scale storage of unlimited capacity today we couldn't stop burning fossil fuels because we don't have enough renewable generation capacity installed to fill any form of storage.

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Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by belorn on Monday June 20, 2022 @04:15AM (#31807623)

If the storage solution is close to free then the capacity doesn't matter since any new investment would be guarantied profit. Wind, when the weather is optimal, is several time cheaper than fossil fuels. Everyone would rush to just install new renewable capacity.

Just this week in Europe, during the summer vacations and when energy usage is at the lowest point during the year, the energy market price still jumps by 3000% when the wind go from high to low.

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