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Recent content by Rorschach
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Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)
You are describing a gravity battery and that usually is classed as storage too. I think the main reason why there are not more of them is that the turbine bit in the middle is complicated and expensive. Though as I said above there is a bunch more of them on the way in the UK. @scaramanga -...- Rorschach
- Post #23,076
- Forum: The Cheese Room
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Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)
Gravity hydro batteries are making a bit of a comeback. I think the UK has a plan for a few big ones already in motion.- Rorschach
- Post #23,072
- Forum: The Cheese Room
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Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)
The grid is one of the most amazing machines on the planet, and easily the biggest. We take it for granted for the most part. To have all those generators in total sync is an engineering wonder. Adding renewables into this machine brings its own set of challenges because of the intermittency and...- Rorschach
- Post #23,068
- Forum: The Cheese Room
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Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)
The tech for managing increased renewables on a grid is known, though. It just needs to be deployed, and so that is a balance of risk vs. cost, with maybe a bit of politics thrown in. I think a bit of cutting corners on this infrastructure in Spain is part of what happened in the conversations...- Rorschach
- Post #23,067
- Forum: The Cheese Room
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Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)
Yes this is already a solved problem.- Rorschach
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- Forum: The Cheese Room
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Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)
There are certainly lessons to be learned from this outage. All operators use events like this, which have happened on a smaller scale before, as a learning exercise. Renewables did not cause the initial grid outage, though. Two generators in Spain went out at almost the same time and the system...- Rorschach
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- Forum: The Cheese Room
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Champions League 24/25
Yep. PSG are making loads of errors now.- Rorschach
- Post #1,126
- Forum: General Football
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Champions League 24/25
A few wasted attacks through indecision from PSG- Rorschach
- Post #1,122
- Forum: General Football
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Champions League 24/25
Paris still in the dressing room- Rorschach
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- Forum: General Football
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American politics
Olga Lautman does an excellent daily corruption tracker and it is staggering to see it all written down.- Rorschach
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- Forum: The Cheese Room
