Re:Afghan opium growers have switched to solar power
by xbmcuser on Monday July 27, 2020 @11:32AM
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I personally feel with solar prices so cheap renewable power is a solved problem what market is waiting for is batteries to get cheap enough. I am expecting in the next decade tesla powerwall type batteries to be in every house even apartments for storing power for night time use now will these batteries be owned by the house/property owners or leased from the power companies that is something the market will decide.
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Re:Afghan opium growers have switched to solar power
by cbmuser on Monday July 27, 2020 @07:03PM
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> I personally feel with solar prices so cheap renewable power is a solved problem what market is waiting for is batteries to get cheap enough.
Germany consumes 1.6 TWh of electricity per day. The battery of a Tesla S has 100 kWh. So you will need to charge 16 million Tesla S batteries to provide the electricity of Germany for just one day.
Good luck trying to implement that.