• hallettj@beehaw.org
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      Power tells you how large of a gap in grid capacity-vs-demand storage can cover while renewables are below peak production. That’s the important number, as long as the energy stored is sufficient to last until renewable output goes back up.

      Giving an energy storage number by itself could be misleading because it seems the batteries that have been built take longer than an hour to discharge. So for example 26 GWh storage does not equal 26 GW grid capacity.

      But this article, like many others does seem to be loose with the power-vs-energy metrics:

      If 6,600 MW doesn’t sound like that much, consider it is enough to supply electricity to about 6.6 million homes in California for 4 hours

      Maybe the implication is that the total energy storage is 26,400 MWh?

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      Possibly because throughout is important, possibly because MWh seems to confuse a lot of people. People are used to thinking of electricity in its flowing state and in the modern era of batteries have generally been given it in time of operation of what the battery is for.

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    That’s 6.6 gigawatts! Just need to get this state over 88 mph and we’ve got a chance of escaping this awful timeline.

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      So step 1 would be to break off California from the rest of the American continent so you don’t have to accelerate all of that?

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        The rest of the world always follows. It’s been weird. Catalytic converters, efficiency standards and all that.

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      Storage is measured that way; discharge rate in watts.

      Both need to be planned to handle peak shaving and overnight storage.

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      Many times over.

      We’d be better off if bitcoin transitioned off of proof-of-work though