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.

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