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Do we really need all these long-duration energy storage (LDES) technologies to hit the net-zero target? We might be better off reducing emissions as fast as possible using our existing tech; rather than getting to exactly zero electricity emissions by a certain timeline.
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📌Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:27 Daily Storage vs LDES: When Does LDES Come In?
06:35 Pumped Hydro
07:52 Flow Batteries
09:05 Iron-Air Batteries
09:41 Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)
10:27 Gravity Energy Storage
11:39 Hydrogen
15:36 How Much LDES Do We Actually Need?
17:17 What about the last 2 - 15 percent?
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⚙️The Engineering with Rosie team:
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Jae Chong - Research & Production Assistant
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Sources:
IEA 2024 – Managing Seasonal Variability of Electricity Demand and Supply; Scientific paper analysing mismatch components: sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306261922002008
hydrogen-germany.de/en/news/seasonal-electricity-storage-in-the-form-of-hydrogen-ready-for-scale-up
linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7401453188190584832/?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_updateV2%3A%28urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7401453188190584832%2CFEED_DETAIL%2CEMPTY%2CDEFAULT%2Cfalse%29
#energytransition #energystorage #longdurationenergystorage #netzero #batteries
Buy The Book: The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding a Civilization at Hungry Minds and use promo code ROSIE10 for 10% off bit.ly/EngineeringwithRosie
Do we really need all these long-duration energy storage (LDES) technologies to hit the net-zero target? We might be better off reducing emissions as fast as possible using our existing tech; rather than getting to exactly zero electricity emissions by a certain timeline.
@HungryMindsArt
#thebook, #hungrymindsbooks, #howtorebuildcivilization, #hungryminds, #hungrymindsthebook, #christmasgift
____________________________________________________________________________________
📌Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:27 Daily Storage vs LDES: When Does LDES Come In?
06:35 Pumped Hydro
07:52 Flow Batteries
09:05 Iron-Air Batteries
09:41 Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)
10:27 Gravity Energy Storage
11:39 Hydrogen
15:36 How Much LDES Do We Actually Need?
17:17 What about the last 2 - 15 percent?
____________________________________________________________________________________
🌱 Join the Engineering with Rosie Patreon community to help develop our channel here:
patreon.com/engineeringwithrosie
You'll join our Patreon-only chat/Discord server to discuss and suggest topics of interest!
☕️ Or you can support by buying me a coffee here:
buymeacoffee.com/engwithrosie
⚙️The Engineering with Rosie team:
Rosemary Barnes - Presenter, Producer & Writer
Javi Diez - Graphics & Editor (linkedin.com/in/javierdiezsuarez/?locale=en_US)
Jae Chong - Research & Production Assistant
__________________________________________________________________________________
Sources:
IEA 2024 – Managing Seasonal Variability of Electricity Demand and Supply; Scientific paper analysing mismatch components: sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306261922002008
hydrogen-germany.de/en/news/seasonal-electricity-storage-in-the-form-of-hydrogen-ready-for-scale-up
linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7401453188190584832/?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_updateV2%3A%28urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7401453188190584832%2CFEED_DETAIL%2CEMPTY%2CDEFAULT%2Cfalse%29
#energytransition #energystorage #longdurationenergystorage #netzero #batteries
