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Re:Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage by patrickg_zill on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:11PM (#17145399)
Only some of them have flywheels. The large telco datacenter I visited had huge pallets of batteries to cover the time needed for the diesel generator to start.
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Re:Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage by walshemj on Thursday May 24, 2018 @07:31PM (#17149427)
Might be more a telco thing as they tend to regard serious outrages as a one every one or two generations as just about acceptable.
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