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Wind farms that wind up in the wind, and then unwind producing energy when the wind is still
Energy storage is a tricky challenge.
Batteries are one, but the cost of even city scale single day's storage is gargantuan.
Others have proposed using renewable energy to generate hydrogen or in-situ ...
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Wind farms that wind up in the wind, and then unwind producing energy when the wind is still
I suppose what you had in mind with your question was something like, every single turbine winches up a heavy weight to its tower while surplus energy is available, then lowers it again to recuperate ...
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Wind farms that wind up in the wind, and then unwind producing energy when the wind is still
Not a full answer, but an addition to the existing answers. I see that most of the other users restricted their options for energy storage to the systems that are more publicised, not the ones that ...
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Wind farms that wind up in the wind, and then unwind producing energy when the wind is still
You're describing a Gravity Battery. While the other answers have pointed out that water is the most common lifted weight, EnergyVault is a Swiss company that's basically lifting concrete blocks. The ...
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Wind farms that wind up in the wind, and then unwind producing energy when the wind is still
As other answers have pointed out, the key to a system that utilizes renewable energy sources with an energy storage backup envisioned by the question is the ability to store large amounts of energy ...
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Wind farms that wind up in the wind, and then unwind producing energy when the wind is still
The storage part of the RES systems is probably the biggest challenge today.
There are several ways to store energy. By far the most used way today is Pumped storage hydroelecticity systems.
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Wind farms that wind up in the wind, and then unwind producing energy when the wind is still
You've described energy storage, or physical batteries. You wouldn't need half of each wind farm dedicated to this; you would simply store the excess, beyond what is used at a given time. It's not ...
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