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Vistra's battery storage facility goes up in flames, spurs evacuation orders (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Yeah, I think massive chemical batteries for storing excess electricity to facilitate a contrived green energy market is a bad idea.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Feelings based or data driven opinion?

[–] yggstyle 1 points 1 day ago

Read that and was like... fuck me why am I debating the guy when I coulda just asked that. Cheers.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's no IRL data for the specific model I've described, but I'm not sure what you mean by "feelings based". Using otherwise excess energy instead of storing it is a considered, rational strategy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

There's no IRL data for the specific model I've described,

This is feelings based. Thanks for clarifying.

[–] yggstyle 2 points 1 day ago

The document linked doesn't go into detail for good reason. It's a bunch of half cooked ideas distilled to make a good read... but misses a lot of key points. Most notably: it hand waves through storage.

The electrical grid is a lot like a pressure system in a sense: we have a lot of equipment that is designed to work at a very specific pressure. Outside of those ranges things break. The article mentions feeding back into the grid which is fine and well... but fails to mention how that needs to be managed so as to not blow the whole thing up. Also that solar system you have isn't going to be feeding shit back into the grid without a buffer... which is storage... for the same reason that you likely will struggle to have a solar home without batteries. The sun is variable and your "stuff" needs a very specific range of power. Too much? zap. Too little? brownout. Either way: rip electronics.

The very things you are suggesting as solutions to power storage literally require it to work.