Comment by bane
1 year ago
I guess the idea here is not that they're lighting the batteries on fire and capturing the heat to spin turbines, but that it's buffering renewables to provide a steady baseload?
1 year ago
I guess the idea here is not that they're lighting the batteries on fire and capturing the heat to spin turbines, but that it's buffering renewables to provide a steady baseload?
Steady baseload is not desirable, the energy grid must respond to meet demand, whatever it is.
Batteries are capable of that response, making them far more desirable and valuable than baseload.