Comment by ceejayoz
1 year ago
I think seasonal underground thermal storage is most interesting for somewhere like a remote community up near the Arctic Circle; away from grids, high seasonal variability in generation, etc. I don't think it's ever gonna be how you, say, run the whole European grid; there, a large geographic range of interconnected grid is more likely to be the answer. Cloudy in Germany? Spain's fine.
Thermal storage is hamburger, hard to re-use, hard to transport. You need electrons.