Pump storage power plantThe storage demand for a bic scale enlargement of solar- and wind power is with pump sorage power plants not possible. New technology is indispensably necessary.Let's take Kaprun as an example, 353 MW power production,130 MW piumping power. It would be possible to increase the pumping power for the other needs of solar energy to 600 MW. We had this on the last page, Germany should have similar shares of solar and wind power like France has atomic power The famouse szene where wo 100 GW wind power and 300 GW photovoltaic are feeding 400 GW into the grid, but the demand is only 100 GW. 300 GW excess electricity would be 500 times Kaprun with pumping increased to 600 MW. (Current extension Limberg II)
Let's imagine all the Alps complete filled with storage power plants. All over the place the masts for the high voltage DC transfer. Nothing to do with the weak 380 kV lines just right now discussed so much in Salzburg. They are far to weak. What government manages this? I think even the military junta in Burma would not be able for this.
February 2008, I dreamed from the possibility of lithium batteries for 100.-EUR kWh and 2000 cycles and 10 years operation. This would be enough for the day/nicht balance at justifiable costs. I discover only 5 month later the company OGRON. The first data for the new batteries: 20,000 cycles (twenty thousand, my nervouse fingers did not type a 0 to much), 20 years usage time. I estimate 300.-EUR per kWh in the examples. A revolution, whose consequences I examine in the next pages. |