Tesla has finished building the biggest battery in the world
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#2I'm impressed with the pace at which they delivered this. If only all government projects were this efficient.
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#3he will charge it with his own personal energy)) Wonder where he takes so much enthusiasm from)
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#4Not mentioned in the article - its capacity is 129 MWh. So, at full pelt it would output 100MW for an hour and 20 minutes... ish?
Which I think is about 120 peoples' worth of power. (correction 1MW is not 1KW, so 120,000!)
https://www.tesla.com/en_AU/blog/tesla-powerpack-enable-larg...
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#5I am not a battery expert by any means. But the article says:
> with 100 megawatts of capacity.
Isn't megawatts the measurement of power? Wouldn't Watt Hours be the measurement for capacity? Sometimes people use Apmere Hours also. Like the Chevy Bolt has 60 kWh of capacity.
Re: Tesla has finished building the biggest battery in the world
#6Not mentioned in the article - its capacity is 129 MWh. So, at full pelt it would output 100MW for an hour and 20 minutes... ish? Which I think is about 120 peoples' worth of power. (correction 1MW is not 1KW, so 120,000!) https://www.tesla.com/en_AU/blog/tesla-powerpack-enable-larg...
The worlds biggest battery is a lot smaller than imagined. I was expecting something the size of a data center
Re: Tesla has finished building the biggest battery in the world
#7Not mentioned in the article - its capacity is 129 MWh. So, at full pelt it would output 100MW for an hour and 20 minutes... ish? Which I think is about 120 peoples' worth of power. (correction 1MW is not 1KW, so 120,000!) https://www.tesla.com/en_AU/blog/tesla-powerpack-enable-larg...
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsdale_Wind_Farm the battery can do 70MW for ten minutes and 30MW for three hours. They also say "capable of discharge at 100 megawatts" but that might be margin of safety.
I wonder if things are limited by cooling? Maybe the battery only has enough cooling to sustain 30MW of output and doing 70MW for ten minutes is all heat soak.
Re: Tesla has finished building the biggest battery in the world
#8Not mentioned in the article - its capacity is 129 MWh. So, at full pelt it would output 100MW for an hour and 20 minutes... ish? Which I think is about 120 peoples' worth of power. (correction 1MW is not 1KW, so 120,000!) https://www.tesla.com/en_AU/blog/tesla-powerpack-enable-larg...
I don't know what Australian electricity needs are, but we averaged 500 W over the last year in our 2-person household. This battery would be good for 10000 similar households for a day or 200000 households "for an hour and 20 minutes...ish".
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#9I'm Nitpicking, but it's a silly title. It should at least read, like "Elon Musk and his team built the biggest battery in the world".
Re: Tesla has finished building the biggest battery in the world
#10Not mentioned in the article - its capacity is 129 MWh. So, at full pelt it would output 100MW for an hour and 20 minutes... ish? Which I think is about 120 peoples' worth of power. (correction 1MW is not 1KW, so 120,000!) https://www.tesla.com/en_AU/blog/tesla-powerpack-enable-larg...
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsdale_Wind_Farm the battery can do 70MW for ten minutes and 30MW for three hours. They also say "capable of discharge at 100 megawatts" but that might be margin of safety. I wonder if things are limited by cooling? Maybe the battery only has enough cooling to sustain 30MW of output and doing 70MW for ten minutes is all heat soak.
Yep, I am just taking the headline 100MW figure as the output.