• blazera
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    011 months ago

    We have all the technology for energy storage we need, it just needs to be built. Theres gravity storage like pumped hydro, pressure storage, thermal storage, flywheels.

    • mihies
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      211 months ago

      Well, no. Sadly we don’t. At least not in the range needed. All of these require either specific geographic relief, something really huge, too expensive or combination. Perhaps the most promising is the green hydrogen, but then again, we have yet to see it at such scale. I’d love to be wrong, though.

      • blazera
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        211 months ago

        something really huge

        yeah, we use a lot of energy, absolutely every form of energy production we have involves really huge things. Massive mines, dams, pipelines, oil rigs, nuclear cooling towers, fossil fuel power plants, oil tankers. They just have to be built. we can excavate dams, build solid weight lifting facilities, molten salt storage, make arrays of flywheels. There’s a ton of answers to energy storage already, they dont involve resources with any kind of scarcity, they just have to be built.

        • @Cryophilia
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          111 months ago

          Big construction involves environmental concerns, that’s why we don’t have many new dams nowadays

          • blazera
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            111 months ago

            Boi i better see you raising a fuss over that infrastructure bill

            • @Cryophilia
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              111 months ago

              Grrl I don’t remember voicing my own opinion on anything