Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
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Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
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The National grid is AC current and as far as I know you can't store
ac current like you can DC i.e a battery. I suppose if water driven
turbines like Tesla's design at Niagra falls -you could use the
extra electrical energy to pump water back up to reservoirs to use
gravity to bring it back through the turbine driven polyphase
generators when needed. But as I said it's difficult to store AC.
Anyone know better?

That's the Holy Grail of renewables - at the moment the best we get
is huge rechargables (football pitch sized!) that can only supply
(via inverters) a backup service:

http://www.abb.com/cawp/seitp202/8C9...F002F2DB1.aspx



Bloody hell Cupra, that is some battery! That would jump start the
planet.

lol - yep, it'd smart a bit if you got too close to it!