Re: 1GW (sic) Battery Energy Storage Systems

On 25/11/2024 5:20 am, john larkin wrote:

On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:58:35 +0000, Martin Brown
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On 24/11/2024 16:44, TTman wrote:

On 24/11/2024 11:40, Martin Brown wrote:

 You've got to have energy before you can store it!
 About all the UK has now is coal. Its NG reserves are mostly used up.

There's quite a bit of off-shore wind. Americans don't seem to pay any attention to that, but back when I was driving from the Netherlands to France we drove past lots of on-shore wind turbines, and off-shore wind-farms are even less controversial. The Danes are quite enthusiastic about them.
And the UK has nuclear reactors - which turn out to offer remarkably expensive power, but if you wanted atom bombs that was the cheapest way of getting lots of plutonium.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney