Comment on The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable

• Tobberone@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes, and that is good. Now we need to be able to do it in Europe as well and in much larger quantities, both for heating and electricity.

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  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    First commercial heat batteries have already been built. Hopefully, the technology will become more widespread, as heat is such a nice form of energy. My guess is, it’s mostly a political and financial problem at this point.

    Storing energy in other forms is a lot trickier, but at least there’s no shortage of potential technologies to try. It’s just that most of them tend to be in lab or pilot scale at the moment. That Chinese RFB facility was a notable exception though.

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    • Tobberone@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, I know. Unfortunately Polar Night are hard to reach, which is why we’ve had to go to others to develop heat batteries.

      The Chinese example was great to see, though! I wish we could get something similar going here, to be able to store energy. Extracting hydrogen is step 1, but also finding a good way to store it is crucial! There has been a lot of innovation in that regard lately, though.

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