Chemical Energy Storage One Long-Term Solution

6 Chemical Energy Storage One Long-Term Solution 

On these grounds, it is foreseeable that solar energy with enormous but rather dilute energy flux onto our planet will be a central source of future energy. Besides 

The remaining fundamental problem is the volatility. Even when solar power and wind power are combined and exchanged over the area of central Europe, this would not be sufficient to guarantee the uninterrupted supply. Solar power has in Europe a pronounced annual fluctuation [82], and wind is quite unpredictable onshore and still not always available offshore. 

In any case, a working hypothesis for energy systems should exist into which new scientific inventions and achievements in fundamental understanding can be brought. A special responsibility for the solidity of scientific results arises from the long 

The question is critical about the time structure of changes in energy systems. From the point of climate protection, we need to stop growing the C02 emission 

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It is now obvious that we have to refrain from irreversible C02 emission as fast as we possibly can. All classes of influences indicated in Figure 1.1.4 point in this direction [1, 78, 79]. This is a long-term trend and not a shorthand political wave. As the dimension of this challenge is so large, we are advised best if we use all options that fulfill the conditions of scalability and sustainability in order not to create a new energy system with a similar flaw in it as our present fossil system. In this sense, chemical energy storage is one important option but certainly not the only solution. 

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