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A gallon of diesel, which you can easily carry, has about 40 kWh of (admittedly thermal) energy. You can pour it into a tank in a few seconds. Edit: if it take
by HPsquared 2y ago
A gallon of diesel, which you can easily carry, has about 40 kWh of (admittedly thermal) energy. You can pour it into a tank in a few seconds.
Edit: if it takes 10 seconds per gallon, that's 14.4 megawatts. Quite a lot. For instance, this massive wind turbine is rated 14 MW:
https://www.siemensgamesa.com/products-and-services/offshore/wind-turbine-sg-14-222-dd https://www.siemensgamesa.com/products-and-services/offshore...
- moralestapia 2y agoYeah, I've heard it's hard/impossible to put together a cable to transfer that much energy; in that context ofc. It's substation-tier equipment. Battery-swapping may be the way.