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| World's biggest battery developed by Elon Musk's car firm Tesla is powering 30,000 homes in Australia and has saved residents $116 MILLION in energy costs over two years |
| 2020-03-07 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #5 Makin' dem batteries had to have coughed up a lot of CO2. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2020-03-07 23:00 |
| #4 Lies, lies, lies... First off, Tesla wound up buying the batteries from Samsung rather than building them themselves, because they couldn't make the deadline. Second, because of this their design input was pretty limited, Third, the "Well, it's good for keeping all the power phase synchronized" is a face-saving half truth, because it doesn't really save all that much money and isn't really a big help when the big problem is the state was short on generating power to begin with. It wasn't being caused by problems with the grid, it was because of a lack of reliable generation. You point this out, and the Tesla fanbois insult you, or go away for a while, but then wait a couple weeks and start up the same argument they avoided defending last time... |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-03-07 21:36 |
| #3 And what about disposal? Lemme guess, future Superfund Hazmat site. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2020-03-07 16:39 |
| #2 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-03-07 06:26 |
| #1 What it has done is drive peaking plants out of business. The best a peaking plant can do is provide power in 2 seconds. This can provide it in milli-seconds. So what the base power plants are doing is to run at above the lowest load. The lows are where the battery is charged and it discharges in the peaks. This has smoothed the short term stuff out enough that the base plant can gradually increase if more power is needed. This was not the initial intent but ends up being much more useful and interesting than the initial intent. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2020-03-07 06:20 |