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[-] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 7 months ago

Think in terms of probability, not absolute. I mentioned flow batteries because I think it's the most promising and developed, but there are several others. If one doesn't work, ten others are being pursued in parallel. Only one needs to work

In a five year time frame, we'll probably have at least one. More likely three or four.

Nuclear, in contrast, has trouble pursuing multiple possibilities at once. It's too expensive. A decade ago, it was the AP1000 design, which was supposed to avoid the purpose-built engineering that bogged down deployments in the past. That was a failure so hard that Westinghouse nearly collapsed permanently. Now it's SMRs, and given the collapse of the project in Utah, it's not looking good.

[-] buzz86us@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I'm more interested in sodium ion being produced that while having less density will charge and discharge in a theoretically endless cycle. Flow battery is great, but it needs to be scalable from the consumer all the way up to grid storage.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago
[-] buzz86us@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

My point was that something that big is unaffordable, and it needs to be scalable.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

Guess what else is unaffordable? Nuclear.

[-] buzz86us@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yes, but I was talking about for home installations. Then economies of scale could make it affordable and scalable for everyone

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