500kWh…that’s it? That’s only 10x my home battery, and it’s supposed to help a whole community? This would give 50 houses 10kWh each, so about 2 hours of power if they have their air-conditioning on lol. Less if they’re using it for heating.
Sorry but a 500kWh battery is borderline pointless for a community battery.
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Yeah, Natrium-Ion ones are completely lithium free and are already being mass produced.
fizzle@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
I don’t think “lobbyists” is the right characterisation here.
A significant portion of the people of this town genuinely thought that this battery was going to catch fire, and that the town would be inundated with toxic smoke.
vividspecter@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
It’s surely not a view they organically developed, but rather the obvious consequence of anti-renewable propaganda. Although I agree that “lobbyist” isn’t the right word as it wasn’t through advocacy of politicians (entirely at least) but the more amorphous dissemination of disinformation by bad faith actors.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Good thing that never happens with coal.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
You are aware that this is a risk with batteries like this, right? Right?