Wind and solar may be renewable forms of energy but they’re also intermittent sources of energy. No wind, no sun, no juice. So, we need batteries to store energy in order to keep the lights on when the weather’s not cooperating. But are they up to the task?
@kiteandkeymedia @chiproytx As an engineer, I've often wondered if wind is as "renewable" as billed. Every action has an effect. When you pull horsepower out of the wind, you reduce the energy in the atmosphere. Entropy will level it out, but God only knows the unintended results.
@kiteandkeymedia Iron-air batteries sound interesting. There is a private company developing them for these types of things.
@kiteandkeymedia @chiproytx The answer is no, and the cost of such a Quixotic pursuit will make even the richest industrialized nations as poor as the least industrialized.
@kiteandkeymedia @chiproytx Two tesla power walls in every house
@kiteandkeymedia Not to mention, lithium is highly toxic at all phases of manufacturing and can be unstable if damaged. Image the bus fires we see in lithium batteries. Now image a fire caused by a lithium battery a 1000 times larger burning. The Gases released are HIGHLY toxic.
@kiteandkeymedia @chiproytx The funniest thing if all, the Government tells us, we supposed to save on Energy and not drive with our Vehicles is avoidable, but if you look on Radar Apps, our and the Worlds Airspace, is filled with US Government and Military Airplanes. Do as we say, not as we do?