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>60 hours of battery bank With that little battery you’re going to need to keep some natural gas plants running to be able to survive a few cloudy days in a ro
by gregbot 1y ago
>60 hours of battery bank
With that little battery you’re going to need to keep some natural gas plants running to be able to survive a few cloudy days in a row without a blackout.
- mapt 1y agoYes, that's an option. Or just buy electricity from one state to the north or south where they didn't catch the same storm as you. Or start running a nearby hydroelectric dam at 300% of average flow rate. Or stop smelting aluminum in your attached aluminum smelter. Or equivalently, your bitcoin mine. Batteries and panels continue to rapidly drop in price. As your PV+battery system gets bigger in relation to your load, chance of a failure mode drops much faster than linearly; Not only are you looking at the far end of a bell curve from battery capacity alone, you're also generating more PV on the cloudy days.
- gregbot 1y agoI dont follow this: >you're also generating more PV on the cloudy days Or this: >chance of a failure mode drops much faster than linearly