I wonder how it compares to battery storage economically? Would also be curious what it's life span is compared to battery storage as moving parts tend to wear out
It was a niche storage and a failure for already many years for many reasons, such as energy released one at once in case of failures, failure due to small defects and metal (or whatever is used) cracking and other potential problems.
Absolutely, and I still think its use case is rather specific. But the Moneypoint installation looks to be a bellwether for other projects across Europe
@@WhatsNextwithParth It is actually worse than low capacity batteries with long life, because the density is limited by the possible explosion in case of failure and other factors, while it is possible to stack batteries in safe configuration.
Just a flywheel.
I wonder how it compares to battery storage economically? Would also be curious what it's life span is compared to battery storage as moving parts tend to wear out
Different use cases I’d say, batteries are for load-shifting say from solar peak hours to evening whereas flywheels are for maintaining system inertia
It was a niche storage and a failure for already many years for many reasons, such as energy released one at once in case of failures, failure due to small defects and metal (or whatever is used) cracking and other potential problems.
Absolutely, and I still think its use case is rather specific. But the Moneypoint installation looks to be a bellwether for other projects across Europe
@@WhatsNextwithParth It is actually worse than low capacity batteries with long life, because the density is limited by the possible explosion in case of failure and other factors, while it is possible to stack batteries in safe configuration.