Re:Why Is Hydroelectricity So Green, and yet Unfashionable?
by theptip on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:15PM
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You don't use batteries to cover that worst-case scenario.
Re:Why Is Hydroelectricity So Green, and yet Unfashionable?
by sfifs on Friday October 28, 2022 @06:38AM
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If you want to eliminate Carbon emissions, you do. The electricity supply network is always built for overcapacity or else bad things happen with frequency and device damage
Re:Why Is Hydroelectricity So Green, and yet Unfashionable?
by pydry on Thursday October 27, 2022 @07:03PM
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This says 5 hours to get to 99%:
https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-near-100-per-cent-renewables-g...
Windgas is actually pretty suitable for that last 1%. It may be 50% efficient to produce but it's easy to store large quantities of gas for long periods for those dark/still spells.
Counterintuitively that 1% of electricity generated from windgas will among be the most expensive "green" electricity but it will probably still be cheaper than nuclear power:
https://theecologist.org/2016/feb/17/wind-power-windgas-chea...
https://energytransition.org/2017/07/germanys-worse-case-sce...