Sure. Which do you figure is the most thermodynamically efficient storage medium? There will be an energy cost of storage, that occurs when energy is translated from one form to another. My favoured technology is hydrogen - but then, what I'm proposing will have energy and sea water in close proximity; so electrolysis makes sense. Australia is huge, and the interior is dry as a bone. It may be bathed in sunshine, so you can produce energy with a heliostat - but how do you store it, and distribute it to where it's needed?attofishpi wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 11:09 am Well, that's kinda redundant when there are ways of storing energy.
Strident view - succinctly expressed, but why? Having the energy to capture carbon, desalinate, irrigate, recycle etc - things that simply can't be done with fossil fuels, or with wind and solar, is precisely the point of developing magma energy technology.
attofishpi wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 11:09 amInvestment is being pulled from coal mining - BHP are heading in the direction of Nickel and Lithium for the electric switch. Electrolysis for Hydrogen - via heliostat generated electricity is Oz future...and yeah the sooner we stop sending coal off to Asia the better.
In my view, climate change is a global problem, and needs to be addressed as such. It's pointless to solve climate change in the US, the UK, and/or Oz - alone. There are 3 billion people in Asia, dependent on fossil fuels - who are not content to remain poor. China is developing economically. India is building a middle class - and good luck to them. But it's got to be sustainable development based on clean energy, or whatever we do in the developed world will make no difference at all. We need a globally adequate approach, and we need to do more than merely avoid creating some GHG emissions. We need excess energy to spend to sequester carbon, desalinate, irrigate, recycle etc; so as to mitigate and adapt to climate change already set to occur, These are hugely energy intensive processes - which require base load power wind and solar cannot realistically produce.