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andrewducker) wrote2017-11-24 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2017-11-24 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 24-11-2017
- Tesla completes world's largest lithium ion battery in Australia
- (tags: australia batteries power )
- How to read reviews
- (tags: reviews games )
- The Conservatives are the party of high UK borrowing and low debt repayment
- (tags: conservatives money fail )
- It’s called effective altruism – but is it really the best way to do good?
- (tags: altruism effectiveness charity )
- SF doesn’t really make you stupid. It’s more that if you’re stupid enough to be biased against SF you will read SF stupidly.
- (tags: scifi reading psychology )
- The Financial Realities of Going Viral
- (tags: money Fame viral )
- "My Apology to Naomi Wu and the Make Community"
- Good Lord. An _actual_ apology!
(tags: apology sexism Technology china usa ) - Why the UK will not be speaking Arabic in a decade.
- (tags: language uk arabic immigration )
- A History of Music, through the medium of Daft Punk's "Get Lucky"
- (tags: music history )
- 'I'm not going to listen to you any more' - Confronting an avatar on a computer screen helped patients hearing voices to cope better with schizophrenic hallucinations
- (tags: schizophrenia avatars hallucinations )
- What's going on in Saudi Arabia (an interview with the crown prince)
- (tags: saudiarabia )
- Call of Duty: WW2's takes a huge step in rendering faces
- (tags: faces graphics games )
- Medical Marijuana users reduce their opioid consumption dramatically
- (tags: marijuana drugs pain )
- Observations of an ex pat: The Middle East explained
- (tags: middle_east )
- Chess, memory training and music just make you better at chess, memory training and music
- (tags: games memory music psychology learning )
- Why I wish Kez Dugdale well for her jungle stint
- (tags: labour tv scotland )
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NGK's battery tech is based on sodium-sulphur electrochemistry rather than lithium and they're more expensive per MWh but they should, I repeat should last decades in operation unlike lithium-based batteries. NGK may have solved the "bursting into flames" problem that bedevilled their first-gen Na-S batteries. Lithium tech is good for mobile operation but its advantage of high capacity per kilogram is not much use in static operations such as backing up intermittent solar and wind generation.
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I'm feeling quite hopeful about the various battery solutions being worked on at the moment.
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I'm not entirely sure all his business ventures are as much of a shoe-in as they are generally considered.
I think where he's going with the industrial scale storage is that he expects to have large volumes of used lithium-ion batteries returned to him as part of his car business which can be refurbished and sold again at a lower spec as part of a static storage array.
You are, or course, entirely correct about industrical scale static storage not benefiting much from very good energy density by volume or mass. Lifespan is a more important consideration.
I think that the cheapest energy supply and storage model might well turn out to be turning excess solar PV in to natural gas and then re-burning that but we'll know more in ten years once the biggest shifts in cost have happened.