On 15/04/2011 05:01 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:21:37 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>
>> Wind power is great. But... do you really want the whole country to go
>> black every time the wind stops blowing? Similarly, solar power. You
>> realise that the sun is below the horizon for hours at a time, right?
>> And some days, it's just not very sunny. For either of these things to
>> work, you seriously need high-efficiency power storage, so you can
>> collect power when it's there, and store it for when it's not.
>
> And most solar collection and all wind powered systems I've seen actually
> include that storage subsystem.

Last time I heard, storing electricity efficiently is an unsolved problem.

(Apparently current battery solutions aren't very efficient.)

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