• Question: How do we store wind and solar energy?

    Asked by Sazzmeister to Adrian, Gaia, Jim, Scott, Vicky on 10 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Adrian Buzatu

      Adrian Buzatu answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      Normally electric energy is not stored, but consumed as soon as produced. But it can be stored in batteries too. That is expensive, though.

    • Photo: Scott Lawrie

      Scott Lawrie answered on 11 Mar 2016:

      This is a big problem: you are right to want to know more. My company is developing a kind of energy storage based on a simple chemical called ammonia; as well as more efficient, smaller batteries.

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