Interesting but absurd. You can't store electricity in batteries for 6 months. Lithium iron phosphate batteries self discharge 5% a month. Adding more solar to cover winter's lower light levels makes it work easily.
Nice breakdown of the data! Im in an area where it gets very warm and almost no rain. Also its 50c a KWH...so solar is definitely something we are looking to get soon.
And I remember hearing about one german company, that sells a system of normal batteries for short time storage and electrolysis/fuel cell for long time storage. In summer you generate the H2 and in winter you use it up when the solar batteries are empty.
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Interesting but absurd. You can't store electricity in batteries for 6 months. Lithium iron phosphate batteries self discharge 5% a month. Adding more solar to cover winter's lower light levels makes it work easily.
Author here. I do say that we don't have the technology to make this a reality yet.
Of course, the batteries would be discharging every night and throughout the winter deficit. But, yeah, the tech isn't there yet.
Nice breakdown of the data! Im in an area where it gets very warm and almost no rain. Also its 50c a KWH...so solar is definitely something we are looking to get soon.
It's interesting to see the data though.
And I remember hearing about one german company, that sells a system of normal batteries for short time storage and electrolysis/fuel cell for long time storage. In summer you generate the H2 and in winter you use it up when the solar batteries are empty.