Zero emmissions If nuclear has to include the costs of dismantling the plants, batteries have to include the cost of building them. And wind generators are massive aluminum structures, which are extremely costly to shape. Some day, maybe. Let's be fair in the meantime.
No one has any way to dispose of nuclear waste (except reprocessing, which has significant cost and safety concerns). It sits in storage pools waiting for that day. Lithium batteries have no such issue.
Tesla’s giant battery in Australia reduced grid service cost by 90%
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Re: Tesla’s giant battery in Australia reduced grid service cost by 90%
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
He meant a human can produce 100W. He specifically doesn't mean "for one hour"; he says the human works a full workday, producing 800 watt-hours of energy.
Right, but 100W/hr is very different from 800wHr.
Mostly because "100W/hr" doesn't really mean anything sensible? If you wanted to write "100W" like "100W·hr/hr", that would be fine.
Re: Tesla’s giant battery in Australia reduced grid service cost by 90%
#143It’s also a national embarrassment according to the government treasurer who likened it to Australia’s tourist stop big things such as The Big Banana. What I love about it is that it’s forcing the governments hand. They have vested interests in the coal industry but cannot continue to overlook this when electricity prices are so high in Australia.
The South Australian government at the time did an incredible thing. They gave the national government the middle finger, in a live-televised conference no less: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-16/josh-frydenberg-jay-we...
No video in that article, here's the full press conference with the badass former premier of SA downplaying the federal government MP standing next to him:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2017/mar/16...