• Kualk@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Lol,

    Batteries are perfect for load balancing.

    Please, know your facts

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 months ago

      The main issue with using batteries for load balancing is the massive resource investment required for them at a grid level, BUT that’s more of a concern with lithium based batteries due to a number of factors. Sodium batteries use way more easily accessible and abundant materials.

      NGL I’m hella fuckin hyped about sodium batteries vs lithium batteries.

    • themurphy@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      Batteries can’t stabilise frequency. If the frequency changes too much, the grid will go down.

      You literally need a giant spinning turbine for this.

      It’s pretty basic energy engineering, and is not related to load balancing.