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BY JONATHAN LESSER: Home batteries are yet another example of electricity “magical thinking.”
“Net Zero” accurately describes the net benefits of an inane energy transition to a battery of blackouts that will paralyze transportation, gridlock lives and workplaces, and produce mountains of toxic waste.
Carbon capture and storage is the process of capturing carbon dioxide from an industrial plant before it enters the atmosphere, transporting it, and storing it for centuries to millennia.
When a world leader in grid scale batteries says they are not the way to net zero electric power it is a big thing.
Bill Ponton’s new Report, “The Cost of Increasing Wind Power: A Reality Check,” contains a short but pithy section addressing the question of energy storage. Here’s the question to be addressed: If after the first round of overbuilding, adding new wind generation resources adds little useful energy and most of the added generation ends up getting “curtailed,” then why not just add some batteries or other energy storage to the system? Wind energy advocates suggest that some form of batteries can store the excess electricity production until it is needed, and everything will then just balance out in perfect [...]
Now we have a wonderful analysis of the long term storage requirements for making solar and wind reliable. As expected the numbers are enormous.
We explore the advantages of metal hydrogen battery technology, originally developed for space but now poised to support energy storage expansion, with EnerVenue CEO Jorg Heinemann. For pictures and more info, visit http://www.energy-cast.com/111-enervenue.html
The large-scale battery storage folks make their case. Listen now.
Large-scale storage is only an insignificant part of the electrical power industry and doomed to remain so for decades to come. Intermittent wind and solar remain a foolish energy choice.
By Todd Royal When understanding and examining energy storage for wide-scale, societal deployment that is scalable, affordable and reliable needs to include these factors: energy security, renewable power production and cyber security. At this time energy storage doesn’t meet any of these criteria.