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[-] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year ago

just a few hours of battery storage is still a huge amount of storage. Are plans being made to tie BEVs into this on a national scale? I figure that's the most effective way to get closer to this goal

[-] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Check this out: https://raygen.com/projects/raygen-power-plant#resources

Batteries were a stopgap until we worked out something better. This plant gets 70% efficiency and more than enough energy storage by refrigerating a cold block, then using stored waste heat + the cold block to create a temperature differential, creating steam (in a closed loop, don't need a big water supply) to spin a turbine that generates power when the sun goes down. Absolutely genius, already deployed and operating and yet nobody is talking about it.

[-] palitu@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

i haven't read about your link yet, but as for storage, the study states

82% of demand was directly powered by wind and solar without having to pass through storage or be curtailed

so the majority of the energy is used without being stored, and having the round trip losses.

... now back to reading ray-gen

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