It’s becoming increasingly common around weekends in France — which gets about two-thirds of its electricity from its atomic fleet
So they occasionally have to take a nuclear plant offline on a sunny and windy day, because we still don’t have the storage for solar to be an effective baseline.
Well if that’s actually the functioning case, they are investing their effort in the wrong place. They don’t need energy production, they need storage.
As far as your comment amount solar, we do have solutions that exist. Energy companies just need to actually get off their asses and work them into the grids.
Yeah storage is sadly difficult and time consuming. I mean if we aren’t just using a crap ton of lith-ION.
Hydrogen gets shit on loads, but this is exactly the kind of thing it can do pretty well. When you have excess, you don’t need to have to worry about efficiency in the same way. Then it’s ready to go once needed.
What do you mean by hydrogen?
Hydrogen production through electrolysis? Or something else?
Sodium ion batteries are just about ready for mass production, they take up twice the amount of space as lithium but are just as effective and far cheaper
What is your source on that? I heard some news about china making some breakthroughs on sodium ion batteries but I am waiting for independent confirmation on that because, well china has let us down more often than not with “bleeding edge” tech.
I was thinking molten salt would be a better energy sink for the here and now.
While a certain amount of pumped hydro energy storage is feasible, we will never have enough storage to
The problem is turning it back on. Xenon poisoning is an issue the prevents reactors switching off and back on again.
We need more hydroelectric water storage. Pump water uphill all day. Doesn’t need any fancy materials, just a bunch of space on a hill connected to the grid.
Oh my god!! Won’t somebody think of the profits?!!
Who wants to bet they will still charge for any and all kwh regardless?
Guaranteed.
isn’t their next door neighbor Germany having an energy deficit crisis cuz they’ve been dependent on Russian gas for years? Maybe they could match up somehow
How can electricity prices turn negative?
Can’t the solar park operators just switch down the park temporarily?
