Measuring storage capacity by peak discharge rate is meaningless.
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2024
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US power grid added battery equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors in past four years
(www.theguardian.com)
I’d like to see a cost comparison. Like over the lifetime of one nuclear reactor (build, supply, run, dispose, decommission) how many grid batteries could we build, and would they give the equivalent amount of energy to the grid?