Re: 1GW (sic) Battery Energy Storage Systems

On 25/11/2024 8:34 am, john larkin wrote:

On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 19:04:06 +0000, TTman <kraken.sankey@gmail.com>
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https://www.natpower.uk/project/bellmoor/
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https://www.natpower.uk/project/teesside2/
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It is all very slick virtual reality marketing stuff.

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You've got to have energy before you can store it!
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About all the UK has now is coal. Its NG reserves are mostly used up.
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No, excess wind power meant I got paid for lots of my energy in the last
24 hrs.21:30 my cost is 0.66p yes! £00.66
22:30 minus 1.32p ( i.e I get paid to use it)

 There will be weeks of cold and dark and still, occasionally all
across Europe.

Weeks? You are about as much of a weather expert as you are a climate expert, and that's because you get your information from climate change denial propaganda. The system has to be designed to cope with worst case situations, but wind power is never the whole answer, and there's certainly a lot of hydro electric power across norther Europe, which will probably become pumped storage to deal unhelpful weather systems

There aren't enough batteries to make it through
those. Maybe everyone can bundle up in bed until things improve.

There don't have to be,

For reliable power, nukes make sense, as does natural gas imported
from somewhere.

Nukes are a bit too reliable. You can't turn them off when you don't need them - in theory you can, but you really don't want to.

One can store a lot of LNG. Or uranium.

True. And you store up a lot of trouble for future generations when you exploit them. Climate change denial propaganda denies that.
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Bill Sloman. Sydney