{"id":3653,"date":"2016-05-20T21:52:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T02:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2016-05-20T21:52:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T02:52:31","slug":"in-germany-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/05\/20\/in-germany-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"In Germany, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/05\/18\/in-germany\/\" target=\"_blank\">energy grid<\/a> a reader writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All we need is energy storage, aka batteries, and we don&#8217;t need any fossil fuels at all, even for back up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem is that not all energy storage solutions fit the bill. The requirements of &#8220;back up&#8221; are that it fires up and comes online fairly quickly, so a lot of energy storage solutions will fail that requirement. Fossil fuels tend to give up a substantial portion of their energies fairly quickly; batteries also do, but their energy density is not yet sufficient to the task at hand.<\/p>\n<p>So I view this &#8216;<em>all we need<\/em>&#8216; phrase as a bit &#8230; misleading &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the energy grid a reader writes, All we need is energy storage, aka batteries, and we don&#8217;t need any fossil fuels at all, even for back up. The problem is that not all energy storage solutions fit the bill. The requirements of &#8220;back up&#8221; are that it fires up \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/05\/20\/in-germany-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3654,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions\/3654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}