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RE: Renewable Energies Part 2 - Wind power
Nice article, I agree that some kind of energy storage is the key to making wind energy able to provide baseload capacity. Have you come across 'power mountain' in Wales? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station
it's a similar concept design to assist the grid in coping with rapid changes in power consumption.
There are many ideas for storage, no matter if it is about positional energy, air pressure or chemical nature. However, they are still in research and not mature enough to be used extensively. However, the expansion of wind power plants is progressing rapidly, in some countries too fast, so that the necessary infrastructure is hardly lagging behind.
I will make a post about it in the future.