Kela plant in Sichuan is part of a huge renewable production base planned by the Chinese government to generate clean energy for 100 million households.
Yeah, looks like that’s how it works. They store up potential energy when the panels work, and then release it as needed. This solves the storage problem associated with solar.
a 1kwh LifePo4 battery costs almost 220$, so batteries are still expensive as heck. water dams or hydrogen production (it takes 48kwh of electricity to produce 1kg of H2 lol ) are good ways of storing solar energy
Too lazy to read. Is it one of those device that converts solar power into potential energy of water?
Yeah, looks like that’s how it works. They store up potential energy when the panels work, and then release it as needed. This solves the storage problem associated with solar.
a 1kwh LifePo4 battery costs almost 220$, so batteries are still expensive as heck. water dams or
hydrogen production(it takes 48kwh of electricity to produce 1kg of H2 lol ) are good ways of storing solar energyAnd with batteries you only have a couple thousand charge cycles. With hydro-electric I feel like it’s limitless.
It still needs to be maintained, but it’s still gotta be way more cost effective in the long run.
Agreed. And I can imagine the turbines needs updates as well.
Yup, all sorts of stuff has to be maintained and repaired.