Innovations for a new era of energy storage - Transforming Business - DW News

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5. I just hope it pans out

China is way ahead of us in renewable energy development, coal was killing them especially in Beijing. If it works and can be scaled up the way they think it can, it will solve the problem of intermittent solar and wind energy nicely.

South Australia has installed banks of lithium ion batteries to store excess solar energy and is now a net exporter. It would be far better if a simpler storage system could be found. I don't know where we'd get the water around here, but this would fit our needs--again, if it pans out.

The last update from the power company was 2 years ago and we were getting 42% of our energy from renewables. Battery storage would boost that.

Another technology being explored is deep bore geothermal energy.