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Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies by macspoofing on Friday September 20, 2019 @07:56AM (#21025619)
>and the battery facilities last 30 years

Try 10 to 15 years. And we've never even attempted to hold energy for days or weeks at a time in these large scale deployments.

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Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies by Dylan16807 on Friday September 20, 2019 @05:49PM (#21031673)
> And we've never even attempted to hold energy for days or weeks at a time in these large scale deployments.

Wouldn't that greatly reduce the wear rate?

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