• Kalash@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Charging a car isn’t exactly on the same scale as providing power to a large metropolitan area with heavy industries.

    There just is no viable battery storage for that scale with current technology.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, you still don’t really seem to grasp the scales here. A 400 MWh is nice for a small Australian town, but a piss in the wind for an industrial centre.

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          1 year ago

          You’re just wrong. Battery systems smaller than this have already paid for themselves reducing brown outs and dramatically reducing or eliminating the need for peaker plants, which are always the worst for the environment. This is only about scale and the cost of batteries has dropped dramatically just in the last few years. Again, it’s not 1995.

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            1 year ago

            Again, it’s not 1995.

            Keep saying that a few more times and maybe you can wish your imaginary battery technology into existance.

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              1 year ago

              Facts are facts bra. The technology is there, it’s proven, and only getting better and cheaper.