Storing Solar Energy

Found this great article to share about a German inventor. Check out this snippet and then click over to get the full scoop.

He’s electrified his bicycle. He’s electrified his Porsche. When he introduces his dog, Paula, you almost expect him to tell you that he’s electrified her, too.

Not yet, but you never know. The engineer from a small town in southwestern is a classic tinkerer. His home is his development lab, and when he’s not wiring up his vehicles, he’s working on the latest iteration of an invention that he thinks will help solve what might be the biggest problem in ’s energiewende — its historic transition from fossil fuels and nuclear power to mostly solar and wind .

Just a few years in, the country already gets more than a quarter of its electricity from renewables. But those sources aren’t always available, which limits their effectiveness.

People everywhere are scrambling to build a better battery, but it’s been a long, slow slog. So Walter’s basically done a workaround. Instead of a better battery, he’s built what he says is a better way of using the batteries we already have.

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