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> At today's prices, thay $12B could instead buy 6GW of solar at 20% capacity factor, and 24GWh of batteries. I don't think that can actually be done. The worl
by coryrc 4y ago
> At today's prices, thay $12B could instead buy 6GW of solar at 20% capacity factor, and 24GWh of batteries.
I don't think that can actually be done. The world's largest battery installation is less than 1 GWh AFAICT. OTOH we're not doing great at nuclear either.
- pfdietz 4y agoIt doesn't have to all be one giant stack of batteries. Your argument is like saying that we can't add more than (say) 2 GW of nuclear, because that's the size of the largest nuclear power plant.
- epistasis 4y agoWhat do you mean by "can't be done"? If we can build a 500MWh battery we can build a 1GWh battery by doing the 500MWh battery two times. Similarly if we can build a 1GWh battery we can build also a 24 GWh battery.
- coryrc 4y agoThat's the same argument for building nuclear -- we've done projects before, just do it more/bigger. Yet we can't and aren't.