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My bad! So, the issue is that the US needs 3800TW of electricity every hour, and by the end of this year it will have 0.014 TW of battery capacity. It is clear
by epups 3y ago
My bad!
So, the issue is that the US needs 3800TW of electricity every hour, and by the end of this year it will have 0.014 TW of battery capacity. It is clear that batteries are not replacing base load generation any time soon.
- rini17 3y agofacepalm Can I see the calculation how did you get from 3800 TWh per year to the same amount per hour?
- Toutouxc 3y agoYou're making the same mistake again. The operation in "Terawatt-hour" is multiplication, not division. It's not Terawatt-per-hour, it's Terawatt-for-an-hour. 1 TWh is the amount of electricity you consume when you run a 1 TW machine for 1 hour. Or a 2 TW machine for half an hour. Or a 500 GW machine for two hours. > US needs 3800TW of electricity every hour This alone should give you pause. "3800 TW of electricity" doesn't mean anything. A Watt is a unit of power. It's the flow of electricity, not an amount.
- epups 3y agoI was trying to place everything in the same unit as much as possible so that we could compare, and it appears I failed miserably. However, you seem to be really good at it. Could you tell me which proportion of the US' electricity needs (I didn't want to say power before because then we are including things like oil) can be fulfilled with 14 gigawatts of batteries?