How Can We Store Excess Renewable Energy? | Engineering The Future

Explore the challenges scientists face in making renewable energy reliable, even when the sun goes down or the wind slows. The biggest hurdle? Storing the energy efficiently. As the world shifts towards green energy, the need for sustainable and effective batteries has never been more critical.
What innovative solutions are being developed to store renewable energy?
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All over the world, engineers and scientists are racing to solve one key problem; how to safely and efficiently store electricity at a huge scale but at a low cost. The quest is producing some truly remarkable ideas and this episode details three of them.
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[@xiaoka]

Oh no, not that stupid idea with the tower of blocks and the crane! 😂 7:14

[@prilep5]

Finally someone is tackling the biggest problem of the renewable energy - storage and management

[@vijaykaramta2324]

Yes this is biggest problem of renewable energy. Closed Loop hydro pump best option for storage of energy.

[@prilep5]

@@vijaykaramta2324 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqm1e5VmaJuclZIsi=w-bl2W5tiEH7Z7Hg

[@williampisano7573]

Stop 🛑 talking about batteries 🪫 and start talking about running high voltage ⚡️ undersea power line. We have billions of miles of undersea internet cables so easy. Install a cable to Japan 🇯🇵 Australia 🇦🇺 to American 🇺🇸 to Spain 🇪🇸 Britain 🇬🇧 Greenland 🇬🇱 iceland 🇮🇸 even India 🇮🇳 South Africa 🇿🇦 could be connect. Then install 110% solar 10% more then you need problems solved and we will prove earth 🌍 is not flat lol 😂

[@ColCurtis]

​@williampisano7573 too expensive and too many unstable governments. Nuclear

[@WkKijkt]

@@ColCurtisyes, because nuclear is the way to go with unstable governments. Also about 6 times more expensive than renewable energy…

[@yosefstanton5470]

Flipping heck there’s no info in this video! It’s all marketing and drama!

[@bartz0rt928]

What's missing here in my opinion is discussion on how to adapt the demand side, like building houses in such a way that they don't need as much cooling and can stay cool for longer (so you could run the AC during the day while the sun is out, and then not need to during the night because your house "stores the cold"). I notice that a lot of modern houses (especially in the US) don't even have retractable awnings! Storing energy always incurs losses, so you want to organize everything to minimize the amount you need. You can do that with demand response (basically, telling things that use a lot of energy to wait for a bit), better interconnects to make sure the electricity can be sent to where it's needed, and ensuring the optimal mix of different energy sources (there's more sun during the day and in summer, and more wind at night and in winter).

[@liberty-matrix]

Don't blame the failure to design a proper power grid on the weather.

[@stevenparker8076]

Who can predict when the sun goes down?

[@hehe-mq2bk]

@@stevenparker8076 I hope ur joking

[@stevenparker8076]

Who can predict when the sun goes down?

[@jedics1]

I predict that Sodium Ion is going to make many storage solutions irrelevant within the decade! Once it gets to scale it will be so dirt cheap, or salt cheap with its longevity and versatility that having one in your home will be as common as a fridge is now. Everyone will become energy generators powering their home and cars for free.

[@juliahello6673]

Lithium is only a small reason why batteries are expensive.

[@rab5193]

LFP batteries cost only 55 USD per kWh in China and it is expected to go to $40 / kWh. It is already cheap enough for all battery storage. Sodium batteries will be slightly lower than that

[@beanapprentice1687]

@@rab5193so then both chemistries will be commonplace for stationary storage. Sodium ion will the cheapest option per kWh, but often times the greater efficiency and much greater energy density of LFP will matter more.

[@maximusasauluk7359]

​@@rab5193 a) It will not be just "slightly", lithium is significant more scarce than sodium, just from this scale production will be much more dirt cheap than that. b) You underestimate how much just 1$ makes a difference for mass adoption like utility energy storage. Small price difference are enough to change direction. c) As countries adopt mass utility energy storage, lithium demand will spike for LFP, and they WILL become more expensive, the same will not happen with Sodium, it will only get cheaper with scale not more expensive.

[@kwektans]

Not really. Gravity based systems can store energy indefinitely, don’t require to be replaced every 15 years, safer to handle, more reliable, etc etc

[@ricinro]

desalination, smelter, concrete operations that could operate during excess supply and shut down when the grid is nominal. Excess means you already have a resilient grid with worse case storage over capacity.

[@msxcytb]

Something like you propose is great ultimately adding costs. Can it be better than going back to the drawing and look at fission-one fuel bundle of 25ish kg of natural uranium in candu reactor is ultimate storage of 1100MWh. Add some modest storage to cover for daily shifts of loads and you get carbon free, reliable and cheap power for as long as needed. People in 100years from now will be smart to choose what will work for them later on.

[@jurrac8505]

nuclear is more optimal for a grid where we are flattening a demand curve to meet production

[@DBjones100]

Wouldn’t it make sense to just get better at nuclear.

[@Vile_Entity_3545]

You make too much sense. You should be quiet and not have an opinion 😂

[@ricinro]

get better? like fusion? thorium? electrical energy storage provides resiliency to the grid in addition to making intermittent energy 24/7. Cost also matters. Renewable is cheaper.

[@chrisconklin2981]

It is questionable about the long-term availability of nuclear fuel. Yes, we need a few plants to keep the technology alive. The US Navy has it share. However, my bet is on advanced deep geothermal electrical generation.

[@Whyoakdbi]

No. It makes more sense to get better in all directions and not put all of your eggs into 1 basket. Development of battery technology has a very powerful positive rippling effect for the whole society.

[@AORD72]

Not enough uranium in the world for a increase in fission reactors. Thorium reactors don't work except in peoples imaginations. Fusion doesn't work yet. Nuclear energy is not cost effective either.

[@ensiyeitu1012]

I believe the future world energy system is going to be mixed. We shall still have a variety of electricity sources. Even if we wanted to, it's impossible to depend entirely on renewables. We shall see some relatively clean fuels like natural gas play a significant role in areas that aren't pro-nuclear.

[@douglasengle2704]

Solar voltaic and wind turbine generated electricity causes the most expensive and unreliable electricity in recent history. It produces wild AC which is not power grid quality. Making solar voltaic power grid quality means using high availably other sources of electricity which is typically natural gas turbine generators running at high service idle consuming 70% of the fuel it would at full throttle when making all the electricity needed, but no electricity at high service idle. This is what is required in order to make up when a cloud passes over a solar farm. The sorry story is California saves surprisingly little natural gas with all the solar voltaic panels it has, but it does have to buy the nearly worthless wild AC at many times the cost of generating grid quality electricity internally passing those cost on to consumers, but not enough to keep the power grids out of bankruptcy. California has to buy all the wild AC. That is why it has to pay to make it grid quality to sell it for whatever it can get for it just to get rid of it when it has an over supply to other power grids. Non peak load power goes for wholesale prices of about $0.03 per kWh. The SoCa power gird has to buy home solar power whenever its available at retain prices of $0.35 - $0.50 kWh. It then has to spend a lot of fuel to make it power grid quality. Cumberland Indiana had residential electric rates of $0.10 kWh in 2020 a suburb of Indianapolis.

[@krslavin]

Huh? The quality of power at any one time is the same from any source - the voltage is the same in all cases (only cheap gasoline generators produce non-sinusoidal output), but the amount of current and power it can generate may vary. California is rapidly building its storage using Tesla Megapacks, which actually provide a much cleaner and more stable grid, as they can respond rapidly to varying loads.

[@trasiulis]

That’s interesting and swiss are lucky to have such mountains but what’s the solution for californians?

[@solarguy4850]

Pumped hydro / batteries / transmission lines.

[@stevemeisternomic]

My solution is to have a balanced grid to start with. Use the excess power generated to power desalination plants and brine processing plants. From the sodium extracted you manufacture sodium ion batteries on a large scale. With enough batteries made you can build industrial scale power storage and transition to 90% green energy in time.

[@tfragia1]

Switzerland: We have all this highly distributed energy, so let's build a centralized battery. 😏

[@peterhaugh1759]

The visuals in this presentation are irrelevant. Only the audio is necessary pace the graphic for the damns.

[@joependleton6293]

Very diverse over view, maybe they should think about thermal storage too...😊👍

[@jettenielsen4951]

There was no mention of using excess energy to create green hydrogen. And there are places where resarch into Power2X technologies is underway.

[@hehe-mq2bk]

just buy them from China. CATL makes excellent Energy Storage!

[@karlInSanDiego]

Pumped storage is the way to go. They last for generations with lower replacement and maintenance than other storage methods. To combat the problem of needing to source them along a possibly drought stricken river, we should incorporate sea water desal & pipelines, so that these can be placed more easily without disrupting natural waterways. This is how you can fill and compensate for evaporation even in drought.

[@Vitan89]

The problem of pump storage is their low efficiency (60%) and difficult environmental placement.

[@karlInSanDiego]

@@Vitan89 That's false. The EIA looked at real world round trip efficiency as reported by energy agencies. Pumped hydro storage was 79% efficient and lithium battery storage was 82% efficient. The battery bros have been feeding you a line of BS both on their operating efficiency and about the actual performance of their natural competitor, pumped hydro storage. You can read the report here. www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46756#:~:text=According%20to%20data%20from%20the,%2Dtrip%20efficiency%20of%2079%25 Also utilization, according to the report, was twice as high for PWS as for lithium battery.

[@karlInSanDiego]

@@Vitan89 incorrect. From the United States Energy Information Association: battery = 82% and pumped hydro = 79% and this is from reported data they have received from operators

[@karlInSanDiego]

Source www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46756#:~:text=According%20to%20data%20from%20the,%2Dtrip%20efficiency%20of%2079%25.

[@tilapiadave3234]

I had exact same thoughts ,, here in Sydney Australia just south of the city we have Bulli pass ,, it is a look-out 1,000 metres (330ft) above the ocean ( almost VERTICAL ), just behind is a large valley. Calculations show this would easily be enough to supply a city of 4.5 million people.(24+ hours)....... but there must be a reason it isn't done ,, many hundreds of smarter people than me are supposed to be working on solutions

[@TommyFink-y6c]

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[@jamesthornton9399]

The same tyoe if energy storage in Austraila is going in to massive cost overruns.

[@AlfarrisiMuammar]

China = Building 40 GWh of Batteries for 2024

[@FaisalAhommed-j1z]

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[@chrisconklin2981]

Thank you for this presentation. You address the issue well, but you only briefly mention "behind the meter". The issue is that the power grid is becoming decentralized and bidirectional. NREL predicts that one third of electrical generation and storage will be on the consumer side. My interest is in grid forming battery/inverters. Substations will become independent nodes and will be responsible for power conditioning.

[@pavelkoudelka8934]

sounds logical...

[@Alex-fz7rd]

laser beam it back into the sun

[@alberthartl8885]

The winner in long duration storage is not yet known. Two promising technologies that are not site specific are iron air (Form Energy) and nickel-hydrogen (EnerVenue). These batteries need to be paired with fast reaction lithium ion to maintain grid synchronization.

[@BlackFalconElectronics]

...Or just go nuclear

[@yvanpimentel9950]

Any dam can be used as pump hidro, jus install solar and direc wind pumps

[@andyfeimsternfei8408]

False. It takes two reservoirs for pump storage. Aside from environmental issues, there are very few sites with that potential.

[@noreaction1]

20 views in 3 minutes? Has this channel fallen off?

[@alwaysrahul05]

I think so.

[@Tennisbull-match-statistics]

Old content, waste of time to watch

[@satyajitkalita]

Curiosity

[@DistrictMemories]

Just one word nuclear

[@Vile_Entity_3545]

What makes me laugh is the CO2 level is only 430ppm and they are making out that every hot summer in some localised place on Earth that year is cause for concern. In 1976 Britain we had the biggest heatwave for 3 months. I was 6 years old and remember it well. Imagine if that was today. The media would be having a fit. This year in Britain it has only been nice for the last 2 weeks and other than that it has been a real cool spring and summer.

[@rtfazeberdee3519]

climate-change.data.gov.uk/data-sources/tile-sparkline-uk-annual-mean-temperature-1884-2022-created-2023-04-25

[@Vile_Entity_3545]

@@sbk2207 yea on the edge of an airport tarmac as the planes are taking off. One day in 45 years got 5 degrees more whoopee!

[@solarguy4850]

Pumped hydro, regular hydro, and batteries are the lowest cost options, and are market ready. Surprisingly, battery tech has grown to the point they may compete with pumped hydro for multi-day storage (50 yr / 15,000 cycle batteries are here today)

[@andyfeimsternfei8408]

Hydro is a mature technology with almost no growth potential. Especially in the US.

[@DobleWhiteAndStabley]

... by storing the excess energy in homes... Seriously. Its not that difficult to add a battery bank in a home to store power in off times like at night when solar doesn't work, or in the doldrums when wind isn't blowing... Its decentralized, meaning you don't waste money with having to over regulate it and hiring government middlemen to be trained and train others, and handle the ridiculous and superfluous paperwork that could have all been circumvented by just... Doing it privately. Decentralize it.

[@ChrisTaylor-dz6nk]

Hydrogen.batteries are dirty not green

[@philgooddr.7850]

« More energy storage in the grid » etc …..is WHERE the mental blockage of electricians starts…: energy means power generated at a given place and time to the power charges, all kinds, stationnary, domestic, commercial, industrial and mobiles for transport. The link, the grid, the network, the distribution of power between energy supply and energy loads AND the load charges as well…Diesel, Ev or H2 vehicles for instances have to be BOTH adapted to new powers generated and the new powers supplies, NOT THE REVERSE…adapting the power supply and network to this huge new heat pumps and BEV additional loads for instance…this require way too much polluting grey energy: if all this supplemental power MUST anyway BE renewable for the salute of the planet, then a specific power distribution and adapted loads population must be optimised for low economical cost and low grey energy, good sociability and biospheric compatibility…For instance, when railways were electrified due lack of coal and inefficiencies, our wise predecessors did no put a resistance in the boiler and a pantograph on the cab of steam locos to find out there was three time not enough hydroelectric energy to power such poor steam cycle…No!!! They produced efficient electric locomotives converting directly E-Power into displacement….and NOW it would be ABSOLUTELY insane if surface renewable solar and wind power is present all over and abundant (solar radiation amounts to 1500 times all the humans power consumed and wind almost as well), to transport this energy elsewhere with powerlines joules losses or pipelines friction losses to another place where it could also be produced!!! This clean energy must be stored and distributed (not transmitted) where it is produced AND the mobility loads, huge and with long range storage capability must be loaded at specific locations to balance the system with a competitive offer and demand fair market and a single real time android apps…..this is where fuel cells and combustion of renewable synthetic zero CO2 gases, H2, CH4 and NH3 easely stored, compressed , liquified locally where needed can replace an ugly power network and cumbersome electrochemical reversible chemistry of batteries, which is dirty, hard to recycle and not endurant nor durable enough. Synthetic gases energy is used with with much LESS grey energy than massive copper aluminium network and lithium storage mining nonsense plus lake evaporation wastes…for instance storing a full season one kWh of H2 in a COPV bottle with zero energy loss cost hundreds times less than storing a similar kWh in a most durable LFP battery only a few day with joule losses: one is adapted variable seasonal unpredictable renewables, the other not !!! Then, the selected renewable system efficiency is not the major issue (essentially a foot print issue only) because sun and wind are free of charge so the major cost is therefore the grey poluting energy of a still dirty civilisation . The real issue per MJ or kWh provided at the right place and right time is the COST and planet impact of that power provided,,while anyway system losses such as high enthalpy heat and pure oxygen have also good commercial values all year long for heating cooling hot water medical,welding etc.. At the same time, without ONE unique electrical and ONE gas nerwork and the same fuel at all gas stations etc, this marks the end of a monopolistic stronghold of the very few biggest fortunes of this word on energy ressources and energy supply at retail level, monopoles finger printed by the huge gap from production cost to retail selling price. THIS is what the current power network and fossil lobby is NOT giving up and willing to kill the planet instead, with all sort of abusive arguments for naïves politicians : nuts aren’t green but our green are nuts! 😂

[@nohackmeirl9509]

Wow only took you 7mins off babbling until you got to the point of the video. Why do you all insist on giving 30 years of history of a topic until you get to what the video is really about FFS.

[@dannydenison6253]

Im hyped about ESS's Iron flow battery. (Full disclosure I invested a bit, but only because I was genuinely hyped about it. )

[@urbanstrencan]

Awesome video, really nice to see different sustainable energy production systems ❤❤❤ More videos like it

[@olgglo]

Took 10 yrs. Now the batteries are >10 times cheaper than 10 yrs ago.... THey could have gone treking for 9.5 yrs with all their 700-strong crew, and in remaining half a year and half the money buy batteries to make a nice 1GWh storage instead of all this troll craft... who could have known?

[@badrinair]

beautiful. we need more such massive prpojects around the world.

[@vilnz]

Just produce Hydrogen

[@JohnKite-v3p]

The problem with the storage of energy points to the problem of congestion caused by curtailment that occurs with intermittent variables. The solution for a constant and variable energy source is using a solar hydrogen energy recovery gas turbine as a constant variable. The process uses the suns nuclear fusion that has a 5-billion-year supply of solar energy to produce hydrogen which is the most universally inexhaustible abundant of elements. This hydrogen is than used to generate a higher, more stable energy output up to 1300Mw but governed between 86-330Mw to manage grid stability and avoid renewable energy zones. The process is similar to a nuclear fusion reactor. However, instead of achieving nuclear fusion at extremely high temperature (150 million degrees Celsius) this system achieves and maintains Ignition at much lower temperatures. It doing so it uses an energy output that exceeds the energy input required to start and sustain the reaction. The operating complex requires an area the size of a football field. The hydrogen power generating turbine has three operational parts, 3.0m in diameter 5.5m long weighs 6 ton has a 14-year continuous life cycle and incorporates direct air capture of CO2 at 1,400 Kg/sec. The cost is $36.5 to 49.5 million being significantly less than an equivalent 330Mw nuclear reactor, solar or wind farm.

[@Vitan89]

Where did you find this fantasy invention? Gas turbines are at most 60% energy efficient and electrolisers for solar are around 50% efficient. So for 1kWh of "hydrogen turbine" electricity you would need to input almost 4 kWh of solar. So that cheap 40$/MWh solar energy suddenly turns to 200+$/MWh. This is why practically no one wants to buy green hydrogen...

[@wind-leader_jp]

Now that we are experiencing extreme droughts and heavy rains, pumped storage power generation will likely reach its limits. I'm an electrical engineer and have an idea for a gravity power generation system that takes into account cases where solar and wind power generation is low. Because Japan has many earthquakes, this idea envisages sending electricity to a minimum number of institutions such as hospitals and government offices even if there is a power outage after a disaster. I think California would be suitable as well, as there is a risk of earthquakes in the country. I previously approached Mitsubishi Electric about collaborating through the Ministry of the Environment, but have not heard back. I now think it would be OK to disclose this idea to people in other countries as long as they are in a trustworthy position. Icon's device is a self-funded and patented passive cooling device. I don't have any funds, but I have an idea, and I am serious about the environment.

[@samg7123]

Solution for pumping water is limited to certain places with specific type of geography. Also have a feeling that a lot of energy is wasted

[@Vitan89]

Yes, the roundtrip efficiency for pupmed hydro storage is around 70% - 80%.

[@williamkreth]

I love pump storage!

[@JayGee-j9p]

I would love to work in such site.

[@remymccoy6078]

I 💕 LOVE the idea of going Green 💚. But the improbabilities at this moment are 2 great theirs too many variables, WE SHOULD JUST DRILL BABY DRILL until we are truly ready to go Green. We benefit A WHOLE LOT MORE. From drilling at this time

[@sandorski56]

No.

[@beyondfossil]

No. We're more ready now than ever for renewables. Firstly, some context. The huge cosmic power of the sun can power the world some 10,000 times over at least. The sun provides the Earth a massive cosmic 173,000-terawatts of non-stop clean fusion power continuously for billions of years and at least a billion more. For reference, 173,000-terawatts is enough to provide all 620-exajoules of energy we use in 1-year in just 1-hour. Or just averaging just 1/10000th of that power spread over a year across the world would provide all we use now. The sun is 99.9% the mass of the solar system and the Earth is like a small breadcrumb next to a large watermelon as the remaining 0.1% of mass is mostly Jupiter and Saturn. There is no source of power even remotely close to our sun within over 4-light years from here. All the combined fossil fuels past, present and future would amount to *a bucket* of water in an ocean of water in comparison -- a bucket! Secondly, the global fossil fuel industry has convinced you that there is an energy shortage but there isn't. It's a classic abusive relationship where the abuser has convinced the abusee that he/she cannot live without the abuser, but no. Some combination of sunshine and wind is available everywhere on Earth and these raw inputs cannot be blockaded, taxed, sanctioned. Less than 1% of the world's land surface covered in just current generation photovoltaics can power all the world's grids. There is enough offshore wind to power the world several times over. Thirdly, renewables have reached historic low cost per watt hour of generation and continue to drive ever further lower in cost, especially photovoltaics. In 2022, over 80% of all new energy additions were renewables, mostly photovoltaics and wind. Finally, the next 10- to 20-years will be critical to avoid the worst of climate change. There is no time to lose. For this and many other reasons, we need to stop drilling as quickly as possible. Renewable green energy is not just a solution, it is the only solution that will get us out of the energy crisis and onto new levels of civilization only dreamed of. The renewable energy systems of our successor will make the current energy systems we have now look like a child's bedroom toy set.

[@beyondfossil]

Not really. We're more ready now than ever for renewables. Firstly, some context. The huge cosmic power of the sun can power the world some 10,000 times over at least. The sun provides the Earth a massive cosmic 173,000-terawatts of non-stop clean fusion power continuously for billions of years and at least a billion more. For reference, 173,000-terawatts is enough to provide all 620-exajoules of energy we use in 1-year in just 1-hour. Or just averaging just 1/10000th of that power spread over a year across the world would provide all we use now. The sun is 99.9% the mass of the solar system and the Earth is like a small breadcrumb next to a large watermelon as the remaining 0.1% of mass is mostly Jupiter and Saturn. There is no source of power even remotely close to our sun within over 4-light years from here. All the combined fossil fuels past, present and future would amount to *a bucket* of water in an ocean of water in comparison -- a bucket! Secondly, the global fossil fuel industry has convinced you that there is an energy shortage but there isn't. It's a classic abusive relationship where the abuser has convinced the abusee that he/she cannot live without the abuser, but no. Some combination of sunshine and wind is available everywhere on Earth and these raw inputs cannot be blockaded, taxed, sanctioned. Less than 1% of the world's land surface covered in just current generation photovoltaics can power all the world's grids. There is enough offshore wind to power the world several times over. Thirdly, renewables have reached historic low cost per watt hour of generation and continue to drive ever further lower in cost, especially photovoltaics. In 2022, over 80% of all new energy additions were renewables, mostly photovoltaics and wind. Finally, the next 10- to 20-years will be critical to avoid the worst of climate change. There is no time to lose. For this and many other reasons, we need to stop drilling as quickly as possible. Renewable green energy is not just a solution, it is the only solution that will get us out of the energy crisis and onto new levels of civilization only dreamed of. The renewable energy systems of our successor will make the current energy systems we have now look like a child's bedroom toy set.

[@beyondfossil]

Not really. We're more ready now than ever for renewables. Firstly, some context. The huge cosmic power of the sun can power the world some 10,000 times over at least. The sun provides the Earth a massive cosmic 173,000-terawatts of non-stop clean fusion power continuously for billions of years and at least a billion more. For reference, 173,000-terawatts is enough to provide all 620-exajoules of energy we use in 1-year in just 1-hour. Or just averaging just 1/10000th of that power spread over a year across the world would provide all we use now. The sun is 99.9-percent the mass of the solar system and the Earth is like a small breadcrumb next to a large watermelon as the remaining 0.1-percent of mass is mostly Jupiter and Saturn. There is no source of power even remotely close to our sun within over 4-light years from here. All the combined fossil fuels past, present and future would amount to a bucket of water in an ocean of water in comparison -- a bucket! Secondly, the global fossil fuel industry has convinced you that there is an energy shortage but there isn't. It's a classic abusive relationship where the abuser has convinced the abusee that he/she cannot live without the abuser, but no. Some combination of sunshine and wind is available everywhere on Earth and these raw inputs cannot be blockaded, taxed, sanctioned. Less than 1-percent of the world's land surface covered in just current generation photovoltaics can power all the world's grids. There is enough offshore wind to power the world several times over. Thirdly, renewables have reached historic low cost per watt hour of generation and continue to drive ever further lower in cost, especially photovoltaics. In 2022, over 80-percent of all new energy additions were renewables, mostly photovoltaics and wind. Finally, the next 10- to 20-years will be critical to avoid the worst of climate change. There is no time to lose. For this and many other reasons, we need to stop drilling as quickly as possible. Renewable green energy is not just a solution, it is the only solution that will get us out of the energy crisis and onto new levels of civilization only dreamed of. The renewable energy systems of our successor will make the current energy systems we have now look like a child's bedroom toy set.

[@beyondfossil]

Not really. We're more ready now than ever for renewables. Firstly, some context. The huge cosmic power of the sun can power the world some 10,000 times over at least. The sun provides the Earth a massive cosmic 173,000-terawatts of non-stop clean fusion power continuously for billions of years and at least a billion more. For reference, 173,000-terawatts is enough to provide all 620-exajoules of energy we use in 1-year in just 1-hour. Or just averaging just 1/10000th of that power spread over a year across the world would provide all we use now. The sun is 99.9-percent the mass of the solar system and the Earth is like a small breadcrumb next to a large watermelon as the remaining 0.1-percent of mass is mostly Jupiter and Saturn. There is no source of power even remotely close to our sun within over 4-light years from here. All the combined fossil fuels past, present and future would amount to a bucket of water in an ocean of water in comparison -- a bucket! Secondly, the global fossil fuel industry has convinced you that there is an energy shortage but there isn't. Some combination of sunshine and wind is available everywhere on Earth and these raw inputs cannot be blockaded, taxed, sanctioned. Less than 1-percent of the world's land surface covered in just current generation photovoltaics can power all the world's grids. There is enough offshore wind to power the world several times over. Thirdly, renewables have reached historic low cost per watt hour of generation and continue to drive ever further lower in cost, especially photovoltaics. In 2022, over 80-percent of all new energy additions were renewables, mostly photovoltaics and wind. Finally, the next 10- to 20-years will be critical to avoid the worst of climate change. There is no time to lose. For this and many other reasons, we need to stop drilling as quickly as possible. Renewable green energy is not just a solution, it is the only solution that will get us out of the energy crisis and onto new levels of civilization only dreamed of. The renewable energy systems of our successor will make the current energy systems we have now look like a child's bedroom toy set.

[@NickDonnetelli]

Store it by using PlUG or FCEL electrolyzors to produce Hydrogen, then sell it for hydrogen refueling stations.

[@chillfluencer]

USA: blablabla China: does

[@PistonAvatarGuy]

@@chillfluencer China burns so much coal (more than the rest of the world combined) that they need to import it from countries all over the world.