No, there is pumped storage. Honestly, despite the plethora of start-ups claiming to have a solution (sodium batteries, molten-salt, etc) The only really proven way to store electricity for later is pumped storage, but that relies on geography (hills) which not everyone has. Batteries are great for phones, and cars but they simply don’t scale to countries.
it has got cheaper, but it has to get cheap enough that you can buy enough batteries with the difference.
I’m not sure it has become that cheap. Maybe these sodium battery things will get developed.
I haven’t heard of any advancement that makes solar generate energy when the sun doesn’t shine and wind generate energy when the wind isn’t blowing.
You haven’t heard of any advancements in energy storage at all?
Not that we need them, the best energy storage is old AF and excellent
The wind is always blowing somewhere and overproduction is cheaper than batteries
You can’t overproduce electricity. You have to match the load.
I know. There are many solutions to this
No, there is pumped storage. Honestly, despite the plethora of start-ups claiming to have a solution (sodium batteries, molten-salt, etc) The only really proven way to store electricity for later is pumped storage, but that relies on geography (hills) which not everyone has. Batteries are great for phones, and cars but they simply don’t scale to countries.
California is doing pretty good with their battery storage. And if all the electric car batteries get old we can use them as stationary grid storage.
it has got cheaper, but it has to get cheap enough that you can buy enough batteries with the difference. I’m not sure it has become that cheap. Maybe these sodium battery things will get developed.