Over production of energy may well be cheaper than battery storage anyway
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oroboros@sh.itjust.works 1 year agonewatlas.com/…/highest-density-lithium-battery
Tesla battery apparently have a density of 244-296 Wh/Kg, so does that mean 1000 metic tonnes of of batteries at 289.6 Wh would be enough to provide annual storage here? That doesn’t seem infeasible or unreasonable for something potentially so beneficial.
kaffiene@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Womble@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Terrawatt is 10^12 so 1000 tonnes of battery would give you around 200MWh of storage. To get to 2000 TWh you are looking at 10,000,000,000 tonnes of Li-ion batteries.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 1 year ago
Lithium battery is usually not what’s is used for grid scale batteries. The new natrium batteries could do that and are made from far cheaper and more abundant materials. The energy saving concrete also promises to be a good solution when used instead of regular concrete and candy be built directly beneath renewable power plants.
oroboros@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Nice, sounds even better!