If the bread is going out the door faster than you can bake it why would you set any aside? A kWh is a kWh.
The reservoir of a hydro plant is more of a fault than a feature. If it was viable to immediately convert incoming water into a kWh that would be the most cost effective approach. The powerhouse is a bottleneck.
You're missing the biggest problem with storage, why I keep repeating the fact we need SURPLUS renewables for mass storage to be viable and why the fact we lack mass storage is an indication of need not ability. There's an energy cost to storage. It makes no sense to store a GWh and use 900MWh later if you can just use that GWh now. If we added mass storage now without sufficient renewable generation emissions would go UP at least ~10%. You'd be spending $$$ to make negative progress. For the 3rd time now.... why, why would you invest in storage to move chairs around the titanic when you can spend money to pump water OUT with more renewables?
Agreed; We need non-thermal nuclear. Not even sure how that would even work...
The reservoir of a hydro plant is more of a fault than a feature. If it was viable to immediately convert incoming water into a kWh that would be the most cost effective approach. The powerhouse is a bottleneck.
You're missing the biggest problem with storage, why I keep repeating the fact we need SURPLUS renewables for mass storage to be viable and why the fact we lack mass storage is an indication of need not ability. There's an energy cost to storage. It makes no sense to store a GWh and use 900MWh later if you can just use that GWh now. If we added mass storage now without sufficient renewable generation emissions would go UP at least ~10%. You'd be spending $$$ to make negative progress. For the 3rd time now.... why, why would you invest in storage to move chairs around the titanic when you can spend money to pump water OUT with more renewables?
Agreed; We need non-thermal nuclear. Not even sure how that would even work...
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