Re:A Baking Soda Solution for Clean Hydrogen Storage
by chrisco255 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:12PM
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So in other words batteries don't get us anywhere close to 80% of the way.
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Re:A Baking Soda Solution for Clean Hydrogen Storage
by audunw on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:24PM
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There's many ways to judge what "80%" is. The batteries will cycle many times every week. They will have much more energy flowing through them in a year than the storage we need for dunkelflaute would.
Yes, in terms of amount of energy stored at full capacity, batteries would not get us to 80%. But those last 20% have reduced requirements for charge/discharge rates, effiency, cost/kWh, which makes many other solutions viable.
Re:A Baking Soda Solution for Clean Hydrogen Storage
by elcritch on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:20PM
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Depends on how you're slicing it. By the total flux of energy batteries may be able to handle 80% of the "energy traffic" over the course of a day by smoothing out day/night cycles.
However that last 25% needs to be stored over long periods where the cost is prohibitive to store in current battery systems.