To make solar power viable, we need a solution for overnight energy storage.

Batteries are complicated.

Do you know what isn’t? Water go up. stonks-up

  • Hexboare [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I find reading interferes with the posting monkey-typewriter

    I don’t think batteries are designed for the duration of storage you want a backup of pumped hydro for, and it will remain to be seen what a synthetic fuel industry looks like (and whether it would ever be cost competitive with pumped hydro at the places where pumped hydro is currently viable).