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The largest battery on the planet would power my workplace for less than two hours- if it could meet the instant demand, which it cannot.
I’m all for energy storage, but I realise there’s a lot of work to do.
For processes like that though, nuclear would make the electricity too expensive to be economic, renewables wouldn’t.
1,200MW isn’t enough? Where do you work?
Why do you think batteries can’t meet instant demand? That’s kind of their whole thing.
We draw a very consistent 950MW, 24hrs a day.
The battery you linked, if it goes ahead, will max out delivery at 400MW, which it can sustain for 3 hours before its 1200MWh storage is exhausted.
Batteries can deliver power instantly, but not beyond their max output.
There’s heaps of interest and proposals, and I hope they go ahead. But there’s a lot of work to do.
We draw a very consistent 950MW, 24hrs a day.
Right, but you realize that’s far from typical for a workplace?
Yes, but, funnily enough, we produce a lot of stuff for the renewable energy industry.
