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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
This was a very helpful post! Thank you. I've done "research" (I hate calling going down google rabbit holes research), but I there's always terms and concepts I think I understand and find out later I don't. For whatever reason, I find this stuff fascinating and spend bored hours googling all kinds of different green tech stuff. So thanks for this.
I think Li Ion battery as storage will never be the be all/end all. Pumped hydro, molten salt, pressurized air, even lifted concrete as energy storage all seem like potential solutions. None of them are ready for primetime, but we can get there. Like I said in the above post, if we can get 90% of the worlds electrical generation renewable, isn't that still a good goal?
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The second part of your post is so key. Industrial scale power storage will not be lithium ion because energy density is not critical like it is for cars or cell phones.
Alberta should just mandate steam for SAGD needs to be from Cogen and use that to replace coal. Then wait for Carbon Capture to come down in price.