Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game
by epistasis on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @10:16AM
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Wait, you think my post sounds naive but you can't conceive of how to charge the batteries?
With the cheapest, most scalable, safe, and environmentally sustainable methods we have, which are wind and solar.
Batteries have the potential to make transmission and distribution far far cheaper than they are today, because without batteries, the grid has to be able to respond to the maximum demand at any given time, meaning that all parts of the grid are sized for maximum capacity, even if that maximum capacity is used less than 0.1% of the time.
With storage on the grid, we can now delay transmission and distribution upgrades far into the future, which decreases the biggest chunk of most electricity bills: transmission and distribution.
Christopher Clack's grid modeling on this shows a route to by far the cheapest energy models which includes massive amounts of highly distributed solar and beefing up the distribution system to match.
Too many people optimize energy costs without even considering that most expensive part of electricity: the grid.
With the cheapest, most scalable, safe, and environmentally sustainable methods we have, which are wind and solar.
Batteries have the potential to make transmission and distribution far far cheaper than they are today, because without batteries, the grid has to be able to respond to the maximum demand at any given time, meaning that all parts of the grid are sized for maximum capacity, even if that maximum capacity is used less than 0.1% of the time.
With storage on the grid, we can now delay transmission and distribution upgrades far into the future, which decreases the biggest chunk of most electricity bills: transmission and distribution.
Christopher Clack's grid modeling on this shows a route to by far the cheapest energy models which includes massive amounts of highly distributed solar and beefing up the distribution system to match.
Too many people optimize energy costs without even considering that most expensive part of electricity: the grid.