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Lithium chemistry seems like a bad solution at scale. Green hydrogen seems cleanest overall but it can… explode I guess.
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I think dynamic balancing (eg German wind + Spanish solar in European super grid) as opposed to local baseload substitution will be a big deal. Baseload is a bad mental model unless you’re running a lot of steady heavy industry. In which case nuclear is the best substitute.
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In consumer and office type load environments I think BTM storage is better than grid-scale. Manage variability at last mile rather than collocated with generation. I suspect has good thoughts on all this
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this one I haven't seen! I'll look into it! "gravity storage" in general seems like it's expensive (other examples involve lifting up and putting down bricks within a stationary tower)
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there were several startups pursuing this a few years ago when I did a project on this... the density is 5x but the technical complexity is much higher than a dam and pump
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