Batteries are not cheap, especially on industrial scale. And most batteries are not ecologically friendly. It makes far more sense to put all the power solar panels produce during the day to immediate use for maximum efficiency, there is no form of battery that exists that doesn’t have some kind of efficiency loss.z
Putting a battery on this is like building a water tower in your front lawn that only feeds your sprinkler, and you’re only filling it from a hose. You don’t really get any benefit out of it and it’s just easier to run the hose right to the sprinkler anyways.
Why battery free?
Batteries are cheap and great.
Oh its refried MIT garbage. Ok.
Agreed, got very MIT ‘WaterSeer’ vibes from this…
Its its coming from MIT, it deserves an extra pass of scrutiny.
WaterSeer was initially somehow related to some part of UC Berkeley, rather than MIT.
You may be thinking of this device: https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(20)30444-X
… Or the metal oxide framework predecessor to it, or the newer thing that uses some sort of gel.
I’m not aware of a commercial product based on this work.
I stand corrected, you are right. All the links I bookmarked 404 now but it was a UC Burkely funded project.
https://scet.berkeley.edu/vici-labs-collider-project/ https://scet.berkeley.edu/waterseer-collider-winners-announced/
Thank you for correcting the record.
Batteries are not cheap, especially on industrial scale. And most batteries are not ecologically friendly. It makes far more sense to put all the power solar panels produce during the day to immediate use for maximum efficiency, there is no form of battery that exists that doesn’t have some kind of efficiency loss.z
Putting a battery on this is like building a water tower in your front lawn that only feeds your sprinkler, and you’re only filling it from a hose. You don’t really get any benefit out of it and it’s just easier to run the hose right to the sprinkler anyways.
Tell me more about how you don’t understand technology or politics.
I understand both, excellently.
You sound like Trump.