Post #1883148
2023-06-04 10:28 UTC
Let me reiterate: By putting up wind and PV farms, and hooking up battery power plants to our grid, we could significantly reduce our fossil fuel usage *at a profit* within just a few years. This is proven technology, which has been in the field for *many* years, and comes at a relatively low safety risk. (Compare this to nuclear power plants, which are rather expensive, take a decade or two to build, and take whole nations as backup to get insured because of the risk of a meltdown.)
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@sbi@toot.berlin 2023-06-04 10:31
For the last 10 years I have been paid for writing code which controls AC batteries (DC batteries plus inverter) or whole grids with fossil fuel, wind, PV, and batteries. I have seen small containers with a single 100kWh battery and 500MWh battery power plants. Some of them support tiny microgrids, like the (backup) power for a single hospital, others are cutting diesel consumption on certain islands down to 20%, and yet others provide primary control to Europe's biggest national power grids.
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@corsac@mastodon.social 2024-04-07 12:51
@sbi hmh to be fair nuclear power has also been here for decades. And with battery density also come higher risks of electrical fire, which is pretty scary.