GordonThree wrote:
The electric company built a huge battery about 45 miles south of me, about 40 years ago. Don't know how many megawatts capacity it can store but I wager it's a lot. Used to be recharged with coal but now they use wind.
There's no electrodes to wear out or electrolyte to catch fire. Just water pumped up hill by wind and when they need more juice let it run downhill through the turbines.
Yep ... that's the name of the game and the way to go (we have one of those near us) ... in tune with nature and the environment -> but not much "high tech attraction" for today's get rich quick investors and kindof young 3.7 to 4.0 GPA engineers chasing stock options.
However way out in some of the Australian and other desert flatlands ... huge lithium battery storage banks may have some short term advantage (until too many cell modules begin dying from end of cycle life) over having to run high voltage lines all the way from two reservoirs located a long, long way away.
