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by epistasis
951 days ago
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With battery prices like this, and days to a week of a household's electricity needs parked in the garage? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38304405 Add in the large number of storage options that are coming to market besides lithium ion, from sodium to iron to straight up thermal storage, and we may still have gas turbines on the grid in 20 years but it's unlikely they will generate more than a few percent of a year's electricity. We are seeing the first disruption of the electricity industry in a loooong time and it's going to upset all other energy processes too, as electrical sources of process heat become cheaper than burning gas or anything else. Looking at where prices are today misses the picture, look at where they will be in five years or ten years in order to understand our future. |
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