Third try Solar battery primer (appllcation and "necessity" in an electrical grid)

[binthere]

chuck. lets get it out in the open. do you operate solar? do you operate wind power? let us know how its working for you. if you are not using solar or wind generated power why not?

[tweety]

Again oneoff, not sure what you want discussed. You started the thread, can you bit a lot more specific about what it is you want discussed?

Otherwise its the typical agriville discussion.

[chuckChuck]

I am looking seriously at installing a grid tied ground mount solar system that will be much cheaper in the long term than buying all our electricity from sask power. Neighbor already has one and I am waiting to see how it performs.

[chuckChuck]

Hey guys go check out the Nikola hydrogen electric semi truck website: https://nikolamotor.com/one#NikolaMotor

I started another thread. Looks pretty good i'd say.

So are you going to tell everyone why it won't work? I am sure there will be problems it even might fail.

But are you pretty confident you know more than the engineers at Nikola?

You know the way a lot of you guys think you would still be using steam tractors or even oxen.

There comes a point in many peoples lives where they get too old and conservative in their outlook to make good decisions for the future. The world moves on but some people don't!

[sawfly1]

you would think there has to be some way of storing energy.
when in excess . like wind and harvesting it when it is calm.

that is the only way green energy will be feasible

maybe heat up a bunch of rocks in the ground, and recover the heat later.
pump the water to the top of the dam
or lift some giant weight and let gravity pull it back down and use the force.
or compressed air like was said.

or some closed loop chemical reaction(battery)
there has got to be something.

for now burn natural gas or nuclear
until we come up with effective energy storage.
it can't be that far away

[farmaholic]

The method of solar energy storage already exists....its called wood, coal, crude oil, even straw....some even renewable like straw, wood to a "slower" degree and coal and crude considered non renewable....even in the long term.

Now storing wind energy is challenging.

Harvesting the kinetic energy of moving water...like bucket says...probably not being used to its full potential.

Reliability, efficiency, are paramount in our part of the world. Who wants black outs or brown outs?

Go ahead, continue the work on making the alternative as reliable and efficient as the tried and true sources of energy we use today, but in the meantime don't punish us for not having the new alternative ready before you want to phase out the old.