A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.
  • joelthelion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    17 hours ago

    I think pumped hydro is already maxed out in many locations, and a lot more complex/expensive if you only need to store heat (and not electricity).

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      15 hours ago

      Also, some of us live in, for example, the Netherlands. Pumping two meters of water floods half the country.

      And turning a valley into a lake is pretty terrible for the ecology. Adding pumps to existing hydroelectric dams is a great thing, but making new ones is… Hard to sell