How Can We Store Renewable Energy? : Crash Course Climate & Energy #4
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Date: 2023-01-19
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Adriano
The solution is simple, actually. When there's more energy output by renewables than that required by usage, use it to produce green hydrogen. For example, during the night while people are asleep you can let wind farms operate normally instead of shutting them down and use them to produce hydrogen. This hydrogen can then be stored and used as fuel to produce energy or to power vehicles.
Also, hydroelectric dams already store power by keeping the water levels high and then pulling the plug out of the drain whenever the grid needs that extra push.
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The solution is simple, actually. When there's more energy output by renewables than that required by usage, use it to produce green hydrogen. For example, during the night while people are asleep you can let wind farms operate normally instead of shutting them down and use them to produce hydrogen. This hydrogen can then be stored and used as fuel to produce energy or to power vehicles.
Also, hydroelectric dams already store power by keeping the water levels high and then pulling the plug out of the drain whenever the grid needs that extra push.
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13ccasto
Remember when we decided to let kids out of school for the summer to help on the family farm or how we literally shift the clock to deal with changing light levels in winter? We could imagine creative ways to deal with the duck curve, too - say by changing working hours so people get out of work with enough daylight left to cook and do their energy-intensive activities while solar is still being generated!
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Remember when we decided to let kids out of school for the summer to help on the family farm or how we literally shift the clock to deal with changing light levels in winter? We could imagine creative ways to deal with the duck curve, too - say by changing working hours so people get out of work with enough daylight left to cook and do their energy-intensive activities while solar is still being generated!
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Jason
I was hoping this video would include the the Nant de Drance water battery in Switzerland. It went online last summer, after quite a massive engineering and construction effort. At least the video did discuss the concept under the Mechanical Storage chapter.
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I was hoping this video would include the the Nant de Drance water battery in Switzerland. It went online last summer, after quite a massive engineering and construction effort. At least the video did discuss the concept under the Mechanical Storage chapter.
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Tom
It may not always be sunny in one place but it is always sunny somewhere on earth! What if you had a region with more daylight left power the region going into the evening demand?
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It may not always be sunny in one place but it is always sunny somewhere on earth! What if you had a region with more daylight left power the region going into the evening demand?
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