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Tesla has finished building the biggest battery in the world

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Re: Tesla has finished building the biggest battery in the world

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Post by nmeofthestate »

electricityUser wrote: post #8
nmeofthestate wrote: post #4

Not 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".

I used UK per capita electrical energy per annum, translated to an average power usage = 0.8KW. 100/0.8 = 120 ish peoples' power use. So yep - off by a mere *1000!

Re: Tesla has finished building the biggest battery in the world

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Post by nmeofthestate »

bamboozled wrote: post #9

I'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".

I also don't think this is "one battery" - is a warehouse full of large pizzas the biggest pizza in the world?

Re: Tesla has finished building the biggest battery in the world

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Post by _yewy »

Am I the only one who is completely fed up of this "cult of personality" mentality in tech and tech-related media?

The article itself is not that bad, but the title here on HN makes it look like he built the damn thing himself. I know everybody is smart enough to understand that there were tons of people involved, but why put Elon Musk instead of, idk, Tesla.

I don't have any problem with any single article on Musk/Jobs/you name it but on aggregate it makes me slightly mad.

EDIT: I'm not trying to take anything away from Musk. He is a very succesful person for many good reasons.

Re: Tesla has finished building the biggest battery in the world

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Post by ioulian »

nmeofthestate wrote: post #12
bamboozled wrote: post #9

I'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".

I also don't think this is "one battery" - is a warehouse full of large pizzas the biggest pizza in the world?

Isn't a battery just a name for the collection of battery cells? Tesla's (the car) battery is composed from a lot of units that can store electricity.

Some RC batteries are just different cells/smaller batteries that are combined together in a nice package.

I think even the batteries in cell phones are composed from different components (some of which doesn't even store energy).

Re: Tesla has finished building the biggest battery in the world

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Post by petecox »

socceroos wrote: post #2

I'm impressed with the pace at which they delivered this. If only all government projects were this efficient.

100 days or it's free was the deal. The urgency was the arrival of summer and an ongoing spat between state and federal politicians.

Re: Tesla has finished building the biggest battery in the world

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Post by alex_duf »

_yewy wrote: post #15

Am I the only one who is completely fed up of this "cult of personality" mentality in tech and tech-related media? The article itself is not that bad, but the title here on HN makes it look like he built the damn thing himself. I know everybody is smart enough to understand that there were tons of people involved, but why put Elon Musk instead of, idk, Tesla. I don't have any problem with any single article on Musk/J…

Yeah same, I love the guy and that's not to disrespect all his involvement but I feel like using "Tesla" in the title would be more respectful for everyone's work...

Edit: Title has been amended on their website, thanks Mashable!

Re: Tesla has finished building the biggest battery in the world

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Post by alex_duf »

nmeofthestate wrote: post #12
bamboozled wrote: post #9

I'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".

I also don't think this is "one battery" - is a warehouse full of large pizzas the biggest pizza in the world?

I think it's actually fair to call it "battery" instead of "batteries" from the outside the system behaves like one.
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