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The World’s Largest Battery to Power the Permian
- toomuchtodo 8y agoAlso of note: almost 25% of power generation capacity in Texas this year will be wind!
- jacobush 8y agoOnly the robot wrestling left and "Real Steel" (2011) is a reality. :)
- SiempreViernes 8y agoFrom the article it seems likely the power will go into making climate change even harder to stop though :/
- toomuchtodo 8y agoThe electrical infrastructure built will remain after oil demand and production declines.
- cconcepts 8y agoOne full screen popup ad: annoying Two full screen popup ads: tab closed, never visiting that domain again, back to HN to warn the others.
- theandrewbailey 8y agon ads: use a script or ad blocking browser extension.
- disqard 8y agoCame here to share the same sentiment, saw your comment at the top. This is the sort of website that reinforces my lazy habit of reading the comments first, instead of looking at the comment itself to form my own unbiased opinion about it.
- kalleboo 8y agoIt sounds like 495 MW will be the peak output of the battery, but I can't find anywhere information about the capacity, which is what I really want to know edit: for comparison the Tesla Australian big battery has a 100 MW output and total 129 MWh capacity. The current largest grid battery in the world is in Japan at 50 MW output/300 MWh capacity
- mickgardner 8y agoNot one but two popup adds on this site!
- pjc50 8y agoTo power oil extraction, so that's probably a net increase for CO2 :(
- joss82 8y agoThis article fails to make the distinction between battery capacity (in MWh) and battery power in MW. That's very bad. It's a bit like mistaking miles for miles per hour. Though in that case it's megawatt times hour.
- perilunar 8y agoThe distinction between energy and power seems to mystify pretty much everyone apart from engineers and scientists. I consistently see it confused in articles in mainstream media.
- kalleboo 8y agoIt looks like all the articles on this new battery are based on a single table of existing and planned grid-tied power sources (including traditional power plants), published by the energy regulator. As a table of power sources it doesn't include capacity, just peak output, which is why there is no info on it. There doesn't appear to be a press release or anything.
- dijit 8y agoWhat are we defining as a battery? If it's purely energy storage I think the hydro energy storage facilities (Like Dinorwig in the UK) definitely qualify: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station which has a capacity of 1,800 MW Tom Scott did a video on this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jx_bJgIFhI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jx_bJgIFhI
- DoctorOetker 8y agoDoes anyone know if law mandates such largescale projects to co-operate with research? If one is going to make, install, use and monitor (within the same system, and thus using exactly the same metrics) huge amounts of batteries, it would seem useful to not make them all identical, but to arrange a hypercube of production parameters (concentrations of chemicals, purity levels, tolerances, ...) so that we can learn the most cost efficient utilization? In the lab people experiment with sigma aldrich grade materials, but the cost efficiency is also a function of the cost of purification grade, manufacturing tolerances, ...
- toomuchtodo 8y agoThere is no such legal or regulatory mandate.
- Grue3 8y agoInteresting how an oilfield in Texas is named after the city in Russia where I'm from.