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andrewducker) wrote2021-03-16 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2021-03-16 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 16-03-2021
- What You Need to Know About 'Roblox'—and Why Kids Are Obsessed
- (tags:games children )
- EU launches legal action against UK over serious Northern Ireland protocol breach
- (tags:europe uk trade doom NorthernIreland )
- Do Liberals And Conservatives Really Have Different Moral Foundations?
- (tags:voting politics psychology )
- Have some very impressive balance/acrobatics
- (tags:impressive video )
- Justice League's Snyder cut review: No longer Whedonesque—and all the better
- (tags:movies DC superheroes review )
- An impressive feat of engineering
- (tags:engineering transport Netherlands video roads viaDanielDWilliam )
- Scotland aims to build 100,000 more affordable homes
- (tags:Scotland housing )
- Beatings will continue until women know their place, confirm Met Police
- (tags:satire police women UK violence )
- Who wants to see a baby emu hatch?
- (tags:birds eggs )
- Yakko's World but Barack Obama Singing
- (tags:barackobama world music mashup video viaSwampers )
- Covid: UK vaccination surge expected in coming days as 10 million doses arrive from India
- (tags:vaccination uk india )
- Seasonal energy storage in aluminium for 100 percent solar heat and electricity supply
- (tags:materials electricity storage metal )
- Performance vs Trust (and why you don't always want the most effective person)
- (tags:trust performance video )
Re: Aluminium Energy Storage
Re: Aluminium Energy Storage
Depending on how you build your 100% renewables grid you might end up having some quite expensive batteries doing very little. Charge up once in early autumn, discharge once in early spring. Or you might have extra long-distance HVDC cables running north-south that you only use the full capacity of for a few weeks of the year. Or you have an over abundence of solar PV so you balance your grid to supply peak demand rather than average demand and throw away power in the summer.
And some systems like this one might avoid some of those excess capital costs. So the individual systems themselves aren't the cheapest systems to run but they reduce the overall amount of power that other elements of the grid have to shift 3-6 months and cut the cost overall.
In which case there's a net gain to be had from providing some subsidy for these systems in some numbers. And that's probably easier to do if they are larger systems as part of shared heating system.
Re: Aluminium Energy Storage