On 06/10/16 12:44, tim... wrote:

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On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 17:24:30 UTC+1, harry wrote:

In Germany when there is a surplus of power, they pay you to use (or
store) it.
You can then export power into the grid from the batteries later and
get paid.
Thus you get paid twice.
Once for importing, and once for exporting.
Now that should encourage people to install batteries thus solving
the intermittancy problem!

It hasn't a hope of solving that problem, or even making a noticeable
difference. A little basic maths will show you how unrealistic such an
idea is.


Except that it isn't mathematically unrealistic.

There is enough power in the sun for each person to collect enough power
to satisfy their own personal needs (including charging up their
electric car) if we have a means to store it across the "dark" periods
of the day/year.


Except we don't. Which is where the mathematics shows it to be
completely unrealistic. And the mathematics doesn't just show its
uneconomic, it shows that for a broad range of 'possible' its not in
fact *possible* either.

Renewable energy *storage* is just cat belling.


Ditto for the majority of companies who don't use electricity as a "raw
material" in their production.

The fact that the storage costs aren't economic, doesn't make it
mathematically impossible.


???

I think you are mad. If someone says to me 'this burger costs £5' and I
say 'I only have £2 in my pocket' the mathematics is telling me I can't
have that burger unless I steal it.

(Of course as a reneawable energy person the concept of stealing from
others disguised as an altruistic act, comes naturally...)

tim







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