LA , and, in fact, California should be able to do anything Australia can do, but it's gonna take more than just solar and battery storage. Fortunately, we have wind, hydro, geothermal, a little biogas, out-of-state exporters, and additional forms of storage.
| South Australia solar power reaches 94 pct of state demand on Sunday |
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"But Los Angeles also needs consistent electricity after the four hour batteries have run down, "
I tend to see the state in terms of what I would need. I'm solar, but use the grid as my battery. If I disconnect, I could plug in my creek for a few months, but I don't think it started flowing until Dec. last year. I don't normally get a lot of wind, and if the skies are cloudy all day, with lots of discouraging words, but without rain, I might make 1 KWH. Last week, Tues was so dark that the system shut down for a few hours, and after that, there was enuf juice to activate the inverter, but that was it. The next day, I made a grand total of 0.1 KWH. I figure I need 3 months storage, and so does the state.
We really need more Pumped hydro storage. We need other long-term storage, like rail,
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gravity storage , compressed air, or some other electrochemical design, and, I think, hydrogen.
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Calif. should be able to do it by (checks his watch) 11:30, PST, , 9/17/45. |
