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Re:How to spend money on your friends without it looking lik... by cogman10 on Friday April 28, 2023 @02:08PM (#35744961)
> Until we have a few more breakthroughs in battery technology, we're going to be stuck with fossil fuels to make up the gap for variable demand.

I think we are there. We don't need new breakthroughs we need more manufacturing capacity.

LFPs are both cheap and work great for a grid storage and now CATL is announcing new sodium batteries which are pretty ideal for grid storage (cheap and long life).

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Re:How to spend money on your friends without it looking lik... by ilyt on Friday April 28, 2023 @03:03PM (#35745646)
It does sound like that, honestly, just needs more investment and maybe engineering into mode distributed storage for the whole renewable stuff.

I'm guessing sweet spot would be something like "big, economically efficient battery per street of houses + solar on every house", but as it would be shared it needs investment and power company have very little incentive for it

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