Tom Bent
tombent.bsky.social
Tom Bent
@tombent.bsky.social
Plucking energy out of thin air and catching sunbeams is cheaper than digging stuff up and setting fire to it. 💨☀️
True. EII exempted industries, outside super red periods is probably closest....
November 25, 2024 at 9:38 PM
TBH outside locational constraints, the market already does just drop the price to zero and below - in fact down to negative €700 in Netherlands this summer. Batteries love negative prices, but they can only mop up so much. As you say, lets see!
November 25, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Depends what its for. For power storage the whole point is only to make hydrogen when you have nothing else to do with the power. Royal Society report sees up to 30% load factor on electrolysers in this role. royalsociety.org/-/media/poli...
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November 25, 2024 at 8:54 PM
See you’re on all the socials John. Exemplary!
November 25, 2024 at 5:58 PM
I thought you lived in a Bond villain lair inside a volcano. Somewhat disappointed, though Leeds is nice too.
November 23, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Got excited by this… and then saw its 3 hours, which isn’t really long duration in my terminology at least. Lithium is so cheap now that 6 hour batteries are planned in GB.
November 22, 2024 at 10:37 AM
Polite correction- you’re out by a factor of one thousand… $0.8bn, even if you value it at full delivered cost. UK curtailment is running around 6TWh and costing consumers about £1bn (on a slightly different sum basis).
November 22, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Gritter Thunberg is my favourite.
November 22, 2024 at 2:13 AM