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minus-squarePhoenicianpirate@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-27 days agoWasn’t there a town in China that produced such a glut of surplus electricity that they didn’t know what to do with it? And it was 100% solar?
minus-squareNikelui@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·7 days agoI guess the biggest bottleneck for renewables is energy storage.
minus-squarePhoenicianpirate@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 days agoPretty much. Once we got that covered there is no excuse anymore.
minus-squareRobbity@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoIt’s basically solved. Sodium batteries are cheaper and much more durable than lithium batteries, and are currently being commercialized. Their only downside is that they are heavier, but that does not matter for grid-scale storage.
Wasn’t there a town in China that produced such a glut of surplus electricity that they didn’t know what to do with it? And it was 100% solar?
I guess the biggest bottleneck for renewables is energy storage.
Pretty much. Once we got that covered there is no excuse anymore.
It’s basically solved. Sodium batteries are cheaper and much more durable than lithium batteries, and are currently being commercialized. Their only downside is that they are heavier, but that does not matter for grid-scale storage.
Story of 2010s Germany as well.