STORAGE TO GROW SOLAR
5 Technologies That Could Drive Solar Energy Growth for Decades
October 3, 2015 (The Motley Fool)
“…[T]he world tends to look at solar energy with a fairly narrow view…[But why create] energy when it's cheapest and saving it for the time it's demanded by the market?...Here are five [energy storage technologies that could reshape solar energy…Lithium-ion batteries…Flow batteries…Liquid cooling…Hydrogen…Demand response…The reason solar energy could be affected by energy storage more than any other source of energy is the way solar energy is created. Calculations from the Land Art Generator Initiative show that it would take just 115,000 square miles of solar energy, about the size of Arizona, to replace all energy sources used in the world today…Building that much solar wouldn't be trivial, but it's well within the realm of possibility in a decade or two. But there would be a need to store that energy and save it for later use…” click here for more
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