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That is a good point and I don't know enough to answer (if you have any good info sources about this I would appreciate them). Aside from the Tesla battery in
by rurounijones 8y ago
That is a good point and I don't know enough to answer (if you have any good info sources about this I would appreciate them).
Aside from the Tesla battery in Oz (which is more about stabilization rather than primary supply) I don't know of any large-scale battery storage systems.
I get the feeling that we are ignoring the scaling part here (We Just have to scale-up). Since the battery systems would need to be big enough to cover dips in renewable output in a worst case scenario (brown-outs / black-outs are not going to be popular).
Is there any info on how many / how big / how long to manufacture these batteries and renewables would have to be to cover an example country?
- toomuchtodo 8y agoYou’d need 0.6% of the continental US land mass for solar panels, and 1 mile by 1 mile of batteries to power the entire US off of solar. This doesn’t include tens of thousands of EVs sold each month, which is rapidly increasing the aggregate amount of distributed energy storage available to the grid.
- kortilla 8y agoThat’s not right. That’s only about 5 times the size of the gigafactory and there is no way that has nearly the capacity to power the entire US for 9+ hours of continuous darkness. You need to check your math... Unless you meant a cubic mile of batteries, in which case that’s completely unrealistic to manufacture.