Prices of the electricity we use to charge

[Woosh]

Speak of the Hinkley, he made a vid of that too..

By the time the EPR at hinckley goes into service, the problem with the rods made by framatome would have been sorted.

 

[MikelBikel]

I watched a yt video about how charging networks charge electric lorries for recharging in Germany. The cost is basic kwh, about 15 cents, plus grid charge which varies with demand and supply. There is a proposal to fit a smart meter in the lorry which will tell the driver when and where to charge.

"They have put boulders to block trucks from charging", so he has to drop the trailer and wriggle between rocks, doesn't sound very etruck-friendly! Hehe

 

[MikelBikel]

Different wrinkle, Hybrid truck, diesel and overhead power lines. No batteries!

 

[Woosh]

Different wrinkle, Hybrid truck, diesel and overhead power lines. No batteries!

Too expensive to implement and unreliable, I reckon.

 

[soundwave]

fkn cosmic power

 

[Ghost1951]

In the summer, I produce 6 times as much electricity as I use, and get virtually nothing for it when I put it into the grid. If I could use it to make and store hydrogen, I'd have enough energy to heat my house in the winter, but there's no domestic process for that at the moment. I can make hydrogen, but I can't keep nor use it.

Have you thought about converting the surplus electricity to heat and storing that in insulated tanks?

You could run the spare power into an immersion heater tank or on a much bigger scale, there is interest in some quarters in making large insulated hot tanks containing very hot sand with heat exchangers etc.

World’s largest sand battery set to slash emissions in Finnish town

The battery will be able to store a week’s heat demand in winter - how does it work?

www.euronews.com

We've probably all split hydrogen and oxygen from water at school or in a back yard experiment, but doing it with any efficiency and being able to store it would be a serious task, and on the scale we are talking about regarding spare power from your roof, probably futile financially. Storing surplus electricity as heat may be different.