Climate Denial Crock of the Week

One Response to “Jesse Jenkins: The Grid We Need to Electrify Everything”

1. rhymeswithgoalie Says:

   
   September 18, 2022 at 12:41 am

   That prototype project converting old oil&gas wells to 2D gravity batteries is a good case study for evaluating tradeoffs in storage. By expectation, longer storage options (seasons, years) might be worth lower efficiencies (e.g., get only, say, 50% of your energy back, but it would be available for years).

   Storage eats any overproduction of super-cheap wind and solar, and the cheaper the supply of wind and solar, the cheaper it is to shunt it to long-term storage. I foresee countries’ long term strategic energy reserves to be managed (or co-managed) by governments, just as natgas reserves are now.

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