Texas is Relying on Batteries

[Hollie]

Of course there is. There are also floating solar farms in lakes and the Gulf.

Actually, no. Much of the northeast US is densely populated and can't support large, open spaces for solar and wind. The PNW doesn't have the abundant sunlight as the southwest.

Show us how floating solar farms are viable.

 

[Synthaholic]

Actually, no. Much of the northeast US is densely populated and can't support large, open spaces for solar and wind. The PNW doesn't have the abundant sunlight as the southwest.

Show us how floating solar farms are viable.

Densely populated = many buildings = many rooftops to put solar panels. There are also things called power-relay stations/electrical substations. You should learn a few things before spouting off and revealing your ignorance.

 

[Hollie]

Densely populated = many buildings = many rooftops to put solar panels. There are also things called power-relay stations/electrical substations. You should learn a few things before spouting off and revealing your ignorance.

Gee whiz, for such a clever lad, you should find a way to increase the hours of sunlight in a 24 hour day and then find a way to turn existing homes on their foundations for a south / west exposure.

 

[beautress]

They are having to turn to battery power because of their failed energy policies, and not being connected to the national grid.


Heat is battering Texas’s power grid. Are giant batteries the answer?
The worst may be yet to come, with extreme weather forecast to persist into next weekend

The outsize role battery storage is playing in keeping the power on is welcome news to clean energy companies, which have been fighting the fossil fuel lobby’s efforts to place blame for the state’s electricity woes on the increasing share of renewables in its energy mix.

Battery storage is a boon to wind and solar, as it allows them to capture and store the energy created at times when it may not be needed and then make it available to ratepayers at peak hours.

But amid this heat emergency, batteries have also proved useful in bailing out more traditional power plants.

When a large coal facility got knocked offline during peak hours this week amid the stress of the extreme heat, energy that was being stored in batteries elsewhere in Texas was quickly dispatched to carry the grid through the evening. The batteries were also crucial to keeping the power on when a nuclear plant hiccuped and went offline earlier in the week, said Doug Lewin, a Texas energy consultant.

"They"? Well!!! And you think that's something to laugh about when the Democrats have declared war on Texas oil and gas? You need to get that Bird of Paradise out of your crooked snooty nose.

 

[badger2]

They are having to turn to battery power because of their failed energy policies, and not being connected to the national grid.


Heat is battering Texas’s power grid. Are giant batteries the answer?
The worst may be yet to come, with extreme weather forecast to persist into next weekend

The outsize role battery storage is playing in keeping the power on is welcome news to clean energy companies, which have been fighting the fossil fuel lobby’s efforts to place blame for the state’s electricity woes on the increasing share of renewables in its energy mix.

Battery storage is a boon to wind and solar, as it allows them to capture and store the energy created at times when it may not be needed and then make it available to ratepayers at peak hours.

But amid this heat emergency, batteries have also proved useful in bailing out more traditional power plants.

When a large coal facility got knocked offline during peak hours this week amid the stress of the extreme heat, energy that was being stored in batteries elsewhere in Texas was quickly dispatched to carry the grid through the evening. The batteries were also crucial to keeping the power on when a nuclear plant hiccuped and went offline earlier in the week, said Doug Lewin, a Texas energy consultant.

Badger's small fridge uses 50W, though the Jackery (near the Tesla plant) 500W power station cannot do a full day's running without recharge, mainly due to (no programmable on/off timer built into the unit [italics]). The fan keeps running when the fridge is not running.

A letter to Jackery may not suffice before one is dead, so learning to build one's own batteries is the trajectory.

 

[Synthaholic]

Badger's small fridge uses 50W, though the Jackery (near the Tesla plant) 500W power station cannot do a full day's running without recharge, mainly due to (no programmable on/off timer built into the unit [italics]). The fan keeps running when the fridge is not running.

A letter to Jackery may not suffice before one is dead, so learning to build one's own batteries is the trajectory.

So happy they didn't abandon the idea of automobiles once it was clear that wooden wheels weren't going to work and they would have to innovate with new ideas and new technologies.

 

[badger2]

So happy they didn't abandon the idea of automobiles once it was clear that wooden wheels weren't going to work and they would have to innovate with new ideas and new technologies.

Yes, and what badger is now doing is to simply enclose Trouve's trike for winter travel in Wisconsin:

World's First Electric Car

https://en.wikipedia.org/Gustave_Trouve

 

[badger2]

Gustave Trouvé - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Synthaholic]

Yes, and what badger is now doing is to simply enclose Trouve's trike for winter travel in Wisconsin:

World's First Electric Car

https://en.wikipedia.org/Gustave_Trouve

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[badger2]

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But Badger is enclosing the trike so that (all elderly people can ride all winter long without breaking their bones [italics]).
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'There were no ministers in the room, no prayers uttered, no Christian rituals offering the solace of everlasting life....He died as a Roman stoic rather than a Christian saint.'
(Joseph Ellis, His Excellency: George Washington, p. 269)

 

[badger2]

That's obviously, (to thinking humans), unworkable. There simply isn't enough open land available across much of the country for solar and wind farms. Both of those forms of energy are unreliable for consistent power generation.

We question the idea of consistency, when a 100W panel will still generate in overcast conditions. Translucent Solar panels over the highway or the river/lake is a valid approach, as are the newer, bird-safe wind turbines, panels on EVs, etc.