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Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? by manfredo on Saturday December 05, 2020 @09:55PM (#25320617)
Liquid natural gas freightliners are also refillable. I'm not sure what you mean by this. A cargo ship filled to the brim with batteries still has orders of magnitude less energy as a ship filled with the same mass of natural gas.
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Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? by ben_w on Sunday December 06, 2020 @03:02PM (#25326191)
Global annual battery production has to be first integrated with respect to time and then multiplied by the turn-around time to calculate global annual capacity to ship electricity by way of charged batteries.

I absolutely accept that this is a poor solution, and that I am quibbling over a factor of perhaps 500 at most when it’s short by a factor of ~250,000.

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