Solar now requires no more upfront capital than coal or gas to produce the same annual electricity, reversing a disadvantage that was as large as five-to-one a decade ago.
Instead of boiling that water to run a turbine perhaps we could use a Thermal Electric Generator to extract energy without said turbine and everything that comes with it.
Dont know how well this would scale or what it’s hard use limits would be. But I hear a common solution to “too much solar” is to run the excess energy into heating a pool.
A Thermo Electric Generator could allow people to recapture that energy in their pool.
Have you tried boiling water?
Jokes aside:
Instead of boiling that water to run a turbine perhaps we could use a Thermal Electric Generator to extract energy without said turbine and everything that comes with it.
Dont know how well this would scale or what it’s hard use limits would be. But I hear a common solution to “too much solar” is to run the excess energy into heating a pool.
A Thermo Electric Generator could allow people to recapture that energy in their pool.
Hear pumps do this, but they pump energy into the ground during hot months to cool the house, then during cold months they pull some of it back.
Heat pumps work like this. They pump heat into the ground during hot months, then take some of it back during cold months.