Comment by realusername
14 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.
14 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.
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.
Cheaper solutions which no-one bothered to implement until now. The proof is in the pudding.