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I look forward to Elon Musk's proposal for unconventional energy storage, because he wouldn't dare call it anything other than Eccentricity.
by Zikes 12y ago
I look forward to Elon Musk's proposal for unconventional energy storage, because he wouldn't dare call it anything other than Eccentricity.
- slashnull 12y agoEclectic energy
- revelation 12y agoThis is just a pun, but of course his proposal for energy storage already exists, and (surprise surprise) its lithium ion batteries. Significant parts of the projected gigafactory capacity are reserved producing cells for SolarCity home energy storage appliances and other storage systems. In fact, right now the Tesla factory has 4GWh of lithium ion batteries installed for smoothing energy demands and they are actively building 400kWh storage units: http://www.greentechmedia.com/content/images/articles/straubel1.jpg http://www.greentechmedia.com/content/images/articles/straub... I'm sure that the end game idea in his mind is using the 85kWh+ batteries of Teslas everywhere for distributed energy storage.
- pm90 12y agoYep, and as the maker of the most efficient of those batteries, he can make a nice clean profit. Good on him though, he (and the whole Telsa team really) did put in a lot of effort to get there.