energy storage is pretty much the last missing piece of an 100% clean energy grid
it is needed whether you want to go 100% wind and solar or 100% nuclear+ hydro
You will always need to have some spare capacity for **unexpected production disruptions**( low wind or solar production, nuclear reactors being forced to shut down if cracks are found,like was the case last year for French reactors) or **unexpected peaks in demand(** brutally cold once-in-a-decade winter day/brutally hot summer day)
as of now,most energy grids use natural gas as a backup or to cover certain demand peaks(the so-called speaker plants,most of which are used less than 10% of the time) so battery storage will be slowly but steadily replacing the role of natural gas
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and because some might worry about lack of lithium/nickel/cobalt etc. ***grid batteries are not the same as EV batteries:***
lower density but cheap battery technologies like suplfur and sodium batteries will be used for grid storage,and both of those elements are extremely abundant in the Earth’s crust
(especially sodium,which is hundreds of times more abundant than iron)
in short,we are solving the last puzzle of the clean energy problem
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energy storage is pretty much the last missing piece of an 100% clean energy grid
it is needed whether you want to go 100% wind and solar or 100% nuclear+ hydro
You will always need to have some spare capacity for **unexpected production disruptions**( low wind or solar production, nuclear reactors being forced to shut down if cracks are found,like was the case last year for French reactors) or **unexpected peaks in demand(** brutally cold once-in-a-decade winter day/brutally hot summer day)
as of now,most energy grids use natural gas as a backup or to cover certain demand peaks(the so-called speaker plants,most of which are used less than 10% of the time) so battery storage will be slowly but steadily replacing the role of natural gas
​
and because some might worry about lack of lithium/nickel/cobalt etc. ***grid batteries are not the same as EV batteries:***
lower density but cheap battery technologies like suplfur and sodium batteries will be used for grid storage,and both of those elements are extremely abundant in the Earth’s crust
(especially sodium,which is hundreds of times more abundant than iron)
in short,we are solving the last puzzle of the clean energy problem
Pls be exponential, pls be exponential, pls….
I love exponential growth