Post #2820805
2025-10-20 07:18 UTC
20. There is no way we can build a big enough battery to shift energy from summer to winter. The economics of battery storage are nearly impossible at one cycle a year.
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@solar_chase@mastodon.green 2025-10-20 07:19
21. Everyone is defining 'long-duration storage technology' wrong. It's not about 6 or 8 hours — you can do that with lithium-ion and probably will — it's about having the capex to add more GWh of capacity decoupled from the capex of adding more GW.
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@Su_G@aus.social 2025-10-20 07:55
@solar_chase@mastodon.green What about Buckminster Fuller’s suggestion re using the N-S halves of the globe to even out power generation & distribution? When one half sleeps at night the other half is generating (a simplification but you get the idea). 🤗