Comment on Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 month ago
We tend to use between 3kWh (vacation/idle power consumption) and around 8kWh per day. If we switched to electric stove, water heater, and heat pump, and add a hot tub, that’d increase substantially. But if we added solar (on our long Todo list…), the battery in the article (60kWh) would probably be able to handle all our storage needs, and it’d fit in he garage (bonus of it can be placed outside/under a deck!). I live in a major city, but I would absolutely love to effectively be off grid.
Exciting stuff — it seems these are touted as being extremely robust/safe, which is of course important for me if it’s going to be in/near our house. Storage density not a huge concern, but price is somewhat important — let’s hope this sort of thing ticks all the boxes.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Most off the grid people live in rural areas but wouldnt an in city off-grid house be a pretty nice thing? Just seems like a cool concept.
Soggy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Off power grid maybe, imagine the nightmare of urban well-digging or apartment septic tanks.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Im dont know that much about off-grid stuff(certified city boy moment) but i guess you can do power and septic town in city, idk about water. Maybe rsin collection? But thats not enough water.
Soggy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Or. Or. And hear me out on this: participate in society.
Akrenion@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
The flip side to that is great though. Imagine a few houses per street supplying batteries for more draining activities in a connected neighborhood.