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I'm of two minds on this. On the one hand, you're right that for different applications having different metrics can be acceptable. Sure, a battery for your ho
by mabbo 4y ago
I'm of two minds on this.
On the one hand, you're right that for different applications having different metrics can be acceptable. Sure, a battery for your home that never moves can be heavy and large and that's okay.
But then you have to consider the economics of production. How many of those batteries will you make? What will the factory for them cost to build? And what would it cost instead to just make a bunch more Li-Ion batteries at the existing factory instead?
- tasty_freeze 4y agoYour logic makes sense if there is only one battery factory. But there are and will be many.
- Retric 4y agoEconomies of scale still apply with multiple factories because you need someone to design and build the equipment used at each of them.
- worik 4y agoWhere do flow batteries (fuel cells) fit in those calculations?
- uoaei 4y agoSome of the more exotic battery designs are things like "rust powder held in a silo at a certain temperature" which presumably can be assembled on-site. It seems to me overly reductive to assume that stationary batteries will be "just mobile batteries but heavier".