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Didn't Edison try this and got his butt kicked by Tesla. Batteries can only store DC and DC is very poor at transmitting energy at great distance. So they are going to have to convert all the battery energy into AC which will require massive DC-AC inverters. The battery banks required to supply this amount energy are going to be huge and pose an environmental risk, plus they will have a life span of around 5 years.
Pipe dreams like these are only practical if money and materials are not considered.
But CA is often leading the way, weren't they also the state that first made the catalytic converter mandatory, against much resistance from car makers in the Midwest?
An additional $100 part in a car and NOT adding an additional chemical to gasoline during refining is wholly different than the rest of America changing their entire electrical generation portfolio, particularly in states that are heavily invested in LNG and coal. Apples to roof nails comparison.
Also, the catalytic converter and mandating unleaded gasoline were legislative requirements that could be dropped on very few actors. Only automobile manufacturers had to worry about adding the catalytic converter to the car, and only gasoline refineries had to worry about taking tetraethyllead out of gasoline during the refining process. The individual did not have to change their behavior at all.
To have the same PV solar capacity as CA, individuals in the other 49 states would need to invest very serious amounts of money into PV panels on their houses, and do so under threat of legislative force as it makes much less sense in a large portion of the country as it does in the sunny southwest. It's a massive money sink and will require force to implement.
I fully support the continued research into alternative energy sources. Things like this are easy to see through. Batteries have to be recharged. We are nowhere close to solar conversion of this kind yet. We are doing better all the time and there is nothing wrong with someone pushing us away from old technologies but to recharge batteries takes N.G. electric generation.
N.G. combined with batteries is cleaner than many of the old ways and in that, it is good.
The plan would be tow charge the batteries during low usage hours and then use the stored energy during peak hours.
No, but I've dropped my phone in a glass of water for 20 minutes without fear. I've also damaged a phone once by leaving it out in 100 degree weather inside of a car. Just killed my battery life after that.
yeah, try dropping pure lithium metal into water, the fireworks are interesting. or even just leave pure lithium metal out exposed to the atmosphere, that gets interesting also. lithium metal is an unstable element, which is why it is good at generating electricity. just remember to keep it sealed.
yeah, try dropping pure lithium metal into water, the fireworks are interesting. or even just leave pure lithium metal out exposed to the atmosphere, that gets interesting also. lithium metal is an unstable element, which is why it is good at generating electricity. just remember to keep it sealed.
Lithium is a metal and why it conducts electricity. Lithium compounds can be used to store energy. But there is no lithium metal in batteries.
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