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minus-squarePhoenicianpirate@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-25 hours 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-up9·4 hours agoI guess the biggest bottleneck for renewables is energy storage.
minus-squarePhoenicianpirate@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 hours agoPretty much. Once we got that covered there is no excuse anymore.
minus-squareRobbity@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours 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.
minus-squarePhoenicianpirate@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoI remember reading about those. Sodium batteries are revolutionary. They don’t need a rare earth mineral… sodium is friggen everywhere.
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.
I remember reading about those. Sodium batteries are revolutionary. They don’t need a rare earth mineral… sodium is friggen everywhere.
Story of 2010s Germany as well.