Ooh an opinion piece from 2013. We were so young and full of hope then… The point is that we used to think that we could all solve it with cool storage ideas. But that hasn’t shown to be the case. Sorry to be the messenger of bad news, please don’t shoot me.
And even this guy admits he doesn’t know what to do in winter except to keep burning methane in gas turbines.
The real challenge is to supply peaks in demand on calm winter evenings following overcast days. That’s when the peak-load power stations, that is, hydro and gas turbines,
Sounds an awful lot like baseload power….
And what about places that have no hydro?
Here’s another opinion piece that says the opposite.
Ooh an opinion piece from 2013. We were so young and full of hope then… The point is that we used to think that we could all solve it with cool storage ideas. But that hasn’t shown to be the case. Sorry to be the messenger of bad news, please don’t shoot me.
And even this guy admits he doesn’t know what to do in winter except to keep burning methane in gas turbines.
Sounds an awful lot like baseload power….
And what about places that have no hydro?
Here’s another opinion piece that says the opposite.
We can keep going for a bit…