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The Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields
Part of Robert Adam's Admiralty Screen, Whitehall - an early commission contemporaneous with his work at Hatchlands
Inside the snail, Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, London School of Economics
Inside the new snail, KMSKA, Antwerp
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Portico coffering - Royal Exchange building
Christ Church Spitalfields
St Paul's Cathedral
The Pantheon, Paris
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Brussels stock exchange
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp - KMSKA
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Large capacity lithium ion batteries on or near residential premises are not the way to go for load balancing, which suits the electricity companies much more than householders, especially as houses built in the U.K. in the past 20 years have the highest plastics load in construction in Europe. Non-lithium solid state technologies are a handful of years away. Britain dodged a bullet in not building lithium battery plants untied to guaranteed customers (they would have been hopelessly uneconomic) and it will dodge another by waiting for solid state batteries. All change soon.
An exhibition centre in Brussels
Hypothetical exercise.
Since PV panels produce electricity throughout daylight hours you can well imagine that a surplus of electricity is produced.
Export that surplus to the grid and import any required back for beyond daylight needs? Excellent choice.
Store it in local lithium ion cells? No thanks.
Store it in local solid state next generation non-lithium cells? Better.
Store it in an underground heat sink water tank? Good if something needs space heating nearby like a housing estate but energy still needs to be exported to the grid most of the time because heating is barely required in summer.
Install heat pumps instead of PVs? Noisy, inflexible, expensive to install and maintain, poor durability, high energy consumption and dumb.
Where should you install heat pumps? At the temperature extremes. In Scandinavia where gas lines cannot be laid on but cheap electricity is available to run the pumps and provide the missing heat. In some Mediterranean climes where frosty weather is absent or at a minimum during which periods they would run inefficiently.
You might install one in Menton which has a no frost microclimate and access to inexpensive nuclear-generated electricity but not in Scotland which has frequent frosts and expensive electricity but, there again, if you live in a flat, as most in Menton do, do not install one - the plumbing job alone would be horrendous.