← Back to context Comment by mperham 20 hours ago You should check out these things called batteries. 5 comments mperham Reply realusername 16 hours ago You can't manage a winter load with batteries (and no country on earth does it), batteries would need a 100x improvement for that purpose. thijson 10 hours ago Yes, I looked into it. To store a few days worth of electricity I would need maybe 100kWh of battery storage. Right now I think battery storage costs around $100 per kWh. A whole season of electricity would be prohibitively expensive. pfdietz 4 hours ago Using batteries for long term storage is one of the classic bullshit moves of anti-renewable arguments. There are much cheaper options at scale. 2 replies →
realusername 16 hours ago You can't manage a winter load with batteries (and no country on earth does it), batteries would need a 100x improvement for that purpose. thijson 10 hours ago Yes, I looked into it. To store a few days worth of electricity I would need maybe 100kWh of battery storage. Right now I think battery storage costs around $100 per kWh. A whole season of electricity would be prohibitively expensive. pfdietz 4 hours ago Using batteries for long term storage is one of the classic bullshit moves of anti-renewable arguments. There are much cheaper options at scale. 2 replies →
thijson 10 hours ago Yes, I looked into it. To store a few days worth of electricity I would need maybe 100kWh of battery storage. Right now I think battery storage costs around $100 per kWh. A whole season of electricity would be prohibitively expensive. pfdietz 4 hours ago Using batteries for long term storage is one of the classic bullshit moves of anti-renewable arguments. There are much cheaper options at scale. 2 replies →
pfdietz 4 hours ago Using batteries for long term storage is one of the classic bullshit moves of anti-renewable arguments. There are much cheaper options at scale. 2 replies →
You can't manage a winter load with batteries (and no country on earth does it), batteries would need a 100x improvement for that purpose.
Yes, I looked into it. To store a few days worth of electricity I would need maybe 100kWh of battery storage. Right now I think battery storage costs around $100 per kWh. A whole season of electricity would be prohibitively expensive.
Using batteries for long term storage is one of the classic bullshit moves of anti-renewable arguments. There are much cheaper options at scale.
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