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Re:Tesla has finished building the biggest battery in the world by keenerd on Thursday November 23, 2017 @08:22AM (#15764842)
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.

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Re:Tesla has finished building the biggest battery in the world by nmeofthestate on Thursday November 23, 2017 @08:27AM (#15764876)
Yep, I am just taking the headline 100MW figure as the output.
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