Comment on Elements of Renewable Energy
houseofleft@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
This is a cool diagram, but I think it makes it look like you can’t combine stuff. Obviously solar and wind in a lot of cases just plugged straight into batteries for storage.
On the flippy floppy, hydropower can do both, but in completely different ways. If you build a dam, you can’t generate electricity, and if you build a turbine, you can’t store it.
I don’t know what my point overall is. I guess just that energy is complicated, and there probably isn’t a “one size fits all” fix.
jdr@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Or you put turbines in your dam and get both, as is common.
houseofleft@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Well yes, but how is that any different from putting batteries in your wind farm?
jdr@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It’s not really, except that that’s usually what’s referred to by the word “hydro”