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On 12/7/24 9:29 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> <snip/>
> 
> Windmills and solar panels are useless for the same reason. - there is 
> no storage able to meet the intermittency problem.
> 
> <snip/>

I've heard rumors of alternative technologies for energy storage being 
explored besides storage of electrical energy.  One example would be a 
device that stores energy not as electrical energy, but instead as 
potential kinetic energy, storing the energy by lifting a large mass and 
releasing it by dropping the large mass.  That particular one is one 
that i doubt will ever get off the ground, but the same basic principle 
of converting electrical energy to some other, more convenient-to-store 
form of energy is behind the ideas i've seen floated around.