Question

Why is it difficult to store large amounts of electricity?

Answer 1

It would be too dangerous, obviously they store a fair deal of electricity in electric plants, but those plants are already huge and highly secure. More electricity would pose extra risks and more space, often unavailable.

Answer 2

To add to the previous post, capacitors can also store electricity, although batteries are the best source for storage, while capacitors are well suited for, among other things, providing a quick increase in power when the load suddenly increases. . . You can store enough power to run a large building by using large banks of batteries for ~20 minutes. Usually that is meant as a temporary measure until generators are brought online. The trouble is that you need so many batteries that maintenance and safety become serious problems.. . In summary, the technology we have is limited. Even the newer Lithium-Ion batteries, while they can store quite a bit of power for their size, are prohibitively expensive on a large scale.

Answer 3

So far all we can store electricity in is batteries. The chemicals make them bulky and sometimes dangerous.

Answer 4

Try to think of a battery. As you should know a battery is one of the simplist electricity storage facilities. An average battery stores like 1.5 voltes. It's size is similar to a size of a human fingure. Ok.. the larger the electrical amount in a battery the bigger it gets, which is very rational. Then imagine if you want to store 1000000 voltes, which is conciderd huge, in a battery. You can imagine the size of this battery.. And as you can see it is very not-practical and unsafe to do this.. I tried to make the answere as imaginable as I could because I don't know the age of the person asking.

Answer 5

It can. However it is not cost effective or needed.. . Theoretically you could build a battery or capacitor the size of the empire state building but what for.. . Now if you’re thinking of “capturing” lightning bolts and storing them in a big battery the problem of too much at once comes into play. The current conductors we have can’t handle that much voltage they melt or burn.