[LDES-technology] Talking about Long-duration storage getting ready to submit

[Sarah Kurtz]

Some of you provided excellent discussion and feedback on the short white paper entitled “Talking about Long-duration Storage”

Based on the excellent feedback and after much thought, I have pretty much totally rewritten it.

I concluded that the two primary objectives were:
• Having a ready answer about what is included in long-duration storage. These questions at the first public workshop were coming mostly from biogas and hydrogen perspectives. Given the opposition of many to calling biogas “storage," I backed off to make the point that we need to model these options, but we might not want to label them as “storage”
• The more solutions we consider, the better our chances of finding robust, low-cost solutions. I feel strongly that we need to include cross-sector storage in the options we study, but I concluded that the way I was presenting it wasn’t being persuasive, so I took a new direction with a new look.

With Dan’s encouragement, I am planning to submit this to “Issues in Science and Technology”, which focuses more on policy and less on technical papers.
https://issues.org/contact-us/#submissions

I’m pasting the (partial) directions for submission below.  I am planning to submit it as a “Perspective essay” which should be 2000-2500 words - you’ll see that the new version caters to the policy focus. I am open to any of you expanding it to a longer technical version - perhaps using some of the graphics from the first version - if you would like.

Given that we need to focus on the modeling/analysis and that the editors are likely to ask for changes, I’m hoping to keep further discussion on this to a minimum, though it would still be good for us to have a common vocabulary and understanding as a team so maybe we should discuss it on a Friday some week.

So, my request for you is:

Do you want to be a coauthor on this?  (It will not count as a peer-reviewed journal article) Do you have suggestions that are clear improvements (I’m trying to avoid word smithing by a dozen people but am pleased to make substantive improvements)   I’m hoping to submit this before the end of the month (unless the CEC decides they want to micromanage it), so hope that your reply can come by Feb. 25.

Thanks!

Sarah

PS I do expect I will edit this more, but am trying to balance the need to get it submitted with the probability that I could continue editing it for months…
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