Hi Veeky Forums. I'm curious to your ideas on how close we are to developing the technology to better store solar energy. Wouldn't this largely solve the renewable energy crisis if we could find a proper environmental way of storing it?
While the topic is at hand, if anyone has any recommendations for documentaries on the electric grid that would be greatly appreciated
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It would cost $80 trillion to feed the world's energy needs with wind water solar and storage
It would cost at most $20 million to use nuclear
meant $20 trillion obviously
If haven't heard of any technology that could store solar energy, but there exist a technology for storing electrical energy, known as 'batteries'.
But they're not very environmentally friendly at the moment
Amen but three chances of going nuclear is bleak
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Geneticly engineered biofuels
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- batteries
- fuel for fuel cells
- heat reservoirs
- even less efficient but longer term:
storage in some very inert material that can be easily and cheaply triggered to release its energy without producing greenhouse gases or other harmful effects
Thank you guys. Although it wasn't what i was originally looking for it might help me
FUCK BATTERIES! LET'S STORE ENERGY IN MOLTEN SILICON!
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MOLTEN FUCKING SILICON!
biofuels are a meme. Incredibly low solar conversion efficiency, still causes deadly air pollution, and unscalable.
LAVA BATTERIES
What is wealth, really? I propose it's 'frozen' pockets of low entropy that can be released easily. This would cover all forms of stored energy, as well as about everything else considered valuable or useful to mankind,
Where is that graphene battery that was being hyped a few years back? Did it get any funding or what?
Canada needs to build a few Th-MSR's on the Canadian Shield to get cheap power back into Ontario. Those poor bastards are getting killed by the wind lobbying.
Hydrogen producing bacteria that eat garbage man.
That's awesome
Graphene battery? Sounds very interesting.
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According to this website, their graphene batteries are improving websites on a monthly basis. Could definitely be seeing the future unfold here
Electrolysis of water and storing the hydrogen for use in fuel cells
Pumping water into resevars in high places.
Storing it as rotational energy in low friction fidget spinners.
These are technology's we have and use today though, and it seems like it didn't solve any energy crisis. Heh.
Not scalable
but that's because these are all primitive methods, correct?
It just needs more refinement. It is possible to use it for your own purposes off the grid, but it can never really match the demand of a city compared to the current conventional methods we have now which can match the output.
People talk much of green energy but they don't realize the demand is far greater than the supply emitted by those sources.
More should be spent on R&D. Once it can give a better yield than what we use currently, people will want to use that new energy field as it is more efficient and cheaper. In other words, just make it better efficiency wise instead of guilt tripping.
You are right. The best way to improve efficiency is definitely by R&D. You said it perfectly.
A flywheel is literally a green battery. Idk how they compare efficiency-wise to chemical batteries.