| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Battery packs to store electricity | |
| Posted by: | Lorne Gifford | |
| Date/Time: | 08/08/19 09:21:00 |
| The solution to the intermittent nature of wind and solar generation is not batteries. You need to think outside the box and on a much bigger scale to come up with a cost and technically effective solution. That solution is wiring - and specifically wiring together the electricity grids of different countries to create a super-grid that covers a large geographical area. With a large grid you find it's always windy or sunny somewhere. When it's windy in the UK we can export electricity and when it's not windy we can import it. No need for storage, just buy and sell on the wholesale spot market. This isn't some fantasy solution either as I conceived and developed just such a power interconnector with my two partners that will be operational by the end of 2022. Think of it as a big wire running at half a million volts for 750 km across the North Sea between the UK and Germany and capable of carrying a fair percentage of either countries electricity supply. It will kill off the last of the coal fired generation, so is very good for the environment (displacing a million tonnes of CO2 each year), and will reduce electricity bills as surplus electricity generation is very cheap, and is all being done with 100% private finance, so is equally good for the tax payer. www.neuconnect.eu and https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-you-vote-your-head-heart-wallet-lorne-gifford/ if you want to understand it a bit better. |