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Environment & Energy

Bob Wallace

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3. Depends on the location...

Reply to txlibdem (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 26, 2011, 11:32 PM

Dec 2011

There are places in the Southwest where wind and solar are abundant in close proximity.

Other places it will make more sense to centralize the storage and import wind and solar.

And in other places it will make sense to put storage close to wind farms in order to minimize the amount of transmission needed.

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China's first wind-solar power storage demonstration project comes on stream [View all] jpak Dec 2011 OP

Looks like storage is sodium-sulfur batteries... Bob Wallace Dec 2011 #1

I wonder what is the actual energy storage capacity of the battery? oldhippie Dec 2011 #5

This could be a model for the US to follow: wind+solar+storage all in one txlibdem Dec 2011 #2

Depends on the location... Bob Wallace Dec 2011 #3

True. txlibdem Dec 2011 #4

"Wall Street"... Bob Wallace Dec 2011 #7

You missed my point about Wall Street txlibdem Dec 2011 #8

Perhaps... Bob Wallace Dec 2011 #9

Here's some data to help you txlibdem Dec 2011 #10

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