Posted on 03/09/2024 4:36:07 AM PST by MtnClimber
I wonder how long a 208,000 MWh battery storage facility would burn.
Manhattan Contrarian ping
They are forging ahead quickly because they don’t know how long they have to run this scam.
Energy solution: COAL, GASOLINE, DIESAL, and NATURAL GAS.
DRILL BABY DRILL. MINE BABY MINE.
Of course, those were always the ones telling us to to do it to save the world or some such. The few people who write about it to teach people how to make themselves more energy self-reliant (and therefore less controlled by government regulations), tend to be the ones that provide meaningful information.
Three words: Follow. The. Money.
We are drilling.
The problem is that Deep State is exporting record amounts of it.
Contempt for Truth is the evil most fundamental to the Decadence of Western Civilization.
In all the world there is nothing more toxic then the ideas that come from the minds of the left..
“it’s actually an arithmetic problem” is where I laughed so hard I spit coffee on my wife sitting next to me. she was not happy. the same people who have this “arithmetic problem” are the same people who claim that an X chromosome and a Y chromosome can be combined to create any number of genders they want. clearly arithmetic is not their strong suit.
The first application for utility scale power storage should be to balance out peak demand in the morning and evening. That would decrease emissions while significantly improving efficiency.
Energy Storage built and controlled by the Chinese Communist Party with a built in self-destruct switch ?
“...” the only way to make the grid function full-time would be energy storage...”
true and when they realize this, then there next solution will be rationing. all in the name of equity of course.
Base load plants are a totally different situation and if they want to close those plants, suggest, buy candle company stock!
I just had a German home battery company recommended to me on a tech forum. They have a significant US presence.
When I took a cursory look at their web site, it was long on marketing to those seeking Green virtue-signaling, and short on technical information on why they have a better product. They are quite pricey.
Needless to say, I was unimpressed, and came to the conclusion that if you bought this firm’s battery system for storing energy produced by your solar array for nighttime use, you’d be overpaying for your batteries.
Electricity is something too important for the government not to ration it.
“As always, they speak of the wrong units, MW instead of MWh.”
Even the people who bought an EV (meaning Leftists) understand the difference between Megawatts and Megawatt-hours (or kwh, in their case), so I have to believe that the conflating of the two is INTENTIONAL, and meant to hide the fact that these battery systems might provide a decent amount of power, but being that they’ll run out in 4 hours (in this case), they cannot even make it to midnight on any given day before going dark.
The solution is not batteries but rather capacitors.
An infinite number of inexpensive 10,000 mw flux capacitors wired in parallel can provide a lot of storage for non commercial energy users. Unlike batteries, flux capacitors can be stacked vertically. In parallel stacks of great height, little real estate is required. Thus in cities where property is expensive, multistory flux capacitor stacks can be spaced at intervals to supply multifamily residential needs.
I’m convinced we need a Constitutional amendment to require Congresscritters and all federal employees to refer to money in the federal treasury as “stolen funds” or “money stolen from taxpayers.” Any federal employee using the term “federal funds” or equivalent language is subject to immediate discharge from federal employment.
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