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World's biggest battery coming to Maine
- JojoFatsani 2y agoI wonder how they will charge it? Maine does not generate much electricity and is an importer. If they could get hooked up to hydro Quebec, and increase solar/wind..
- defrost 2y agoFor reference: If the current plans remain unchanged, the battery will be capable of storing 8,500 megawatt-hours (MWh) of energy, representatives of Form Energy, the company behind the project, said To put that 8,500 MWh of energy into context, Freeing Energy estimates that a single megawatt-hour would provide enough power for an electric car to travel 3,600 miles (5,800 kilometers). If you could somehow hook Form Energy's battery system up to that electric car, it could travel approximately 31 million miles (50 million km) on a single charge — enough to circumnavigate the Earth 1,228 times. Single small car comparisons are interesting, how does that compare to car use by entire cities | countries on a daily | yearly basis? From "12 Months ended 30 June 2020" vehicle statistics for all of Australia: * 19,768,518 estimated number of vehicles * 238,499 million kilometres travelled, an average of 12.1 thousand kilometres per vehicle * 33,019 megalitres of fuel consumed * 223,949 million tonne-kilometres of freight moved So that's 5x50 million km travelled in Australia per year (all size vehicles) on public roads (not counting 24|7|365 100 tonne+ mining fleet movements of a few billion tonne of material per annum) - https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/tourism-and-transport/survey-motor-vehicle-use-australia/latest-release https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/tourism-and-trans... It's a big battery .. and an iron-air one to boot.