Landing on the moon was a huge expense but the US didn’t wuss IIT ir lack the ingenuity to make the seemingly possible happen. Where’s your faith in American innovation?
Here’s an interesting company press release on the battery front.
FPL announces plan to build the world’s largest solar-powered battery and drive accelerated retirement of fossil fuel generation
- Innovative modernization plan will replace a pair of aging natural gas power generating units with clean and renewable energy, saving FPL customers more than $100 million while eliminating more than 1 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions
- The FPL Manatee Energy Storage Center’s battery system is projected to have four times the capacity of the world’s largest battery system currently in operation
- Charged by an existing, co-located FPL solar power plant, the planned battery storage center will increase the predictability of solar - extending its benefits even when the sun is not shining
In fairness, the OP is about bashing Trump not wind power, so there is that. Technically, discussing facts related to wind power was never the intent of the thread, but one could hope, right?