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CoopersDad

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6. How do you feel about thermal storage and flywheel storage, or others?
Sun Sep 17, 2023, 11:10 AM
Sep 2023

BTW, I'm a fan and follower of your work even if we might disagree at times.

I've visited both the old and the new CAISO facility and worked with some of them, balancing our grid is one of the most fascinating things I've learned about this sector.

I've also toured Diable four or five times, most recently this summer, I always learn new things. The turbine deck is magical, but I want to learn more about new, smaller scale, nukes.

I expect that you'll agree that storage is essential in maintaining a safe and reliable grid and permitting flexibility. I completed courses at Stanford that included one in energy storage, XEIET139-021, in 2017. I was surprised to learn later that an in-law's firm had installed flywheel systems on one or more islands in the North Sea.

Assuming storage technologies as various scales are desirable, which do you find most worthy of consideration?

Thanks in advance.

Good luck to your son, we need his generation to unscrew what we've don.

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