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Debunking The "Dirty" Solar Panels And Battery Myth (cleantechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Debunking The "Dirty" Solar Panels And Battery Myth::Solar panels and residential storage batteries are accused of having huge amounts of embedded carbon. The truth is quite the opposite.

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[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

https://youtube.com/@UndecidedMF

This guy does a ton of videos on battery technology that is prepping for the market. One of the biggest things he mentions in every battery video is that we need to stop looking for a silver bullet and that all of the technologies have their place. Flow batteries are amazing for industrial/grid-scale storage, lithium-ion is good for small consumer electronics, and betavoltaics could be used for low-power sensors that are becoming quite prevalent. It is going to be a challenge of figuring out the right answer for a given class of situations, not one of finding the best battery.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Nice, I'll check out his channel!

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm surprised I never hear about Nickel–iron batteries for solar storage in pop media. Long life span, common metals, wide temperature ranges. Seems perfect for household/small industrial storage, but instead, people are strapping Musk's lithium bombs to the sides of their garages.

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Check out the channel I mentioned, I think he has several NiFe battery videos.

[–] Noerttipertti@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In small scale old truck/semi batteries are pretty good energy storage solution. Not good enough for round the year use in transportation, but quite usefull in small scale energy storage. (I have a set of 10 attached to solar panels at summer cottage. Enough to run 12V lighting, fridge, fans and tv through the (short) night).

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Are you talking the lead acid starter batteries? Sure, you can repurpose those for offgrid storage, but I'm talking ongrid, industrial scale.