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Re:Powering the Lunar Base by ben_w on Monday August 09, 2021 @05:14AM (#28114244)
Right next to where it suggests 1 MWh/t “For the sake of argument”, it says:

"""Even using Lunar water, the mass of the cells, condensers, electrolysers, power electronics, storage tanks, and heat exchangers is comparable a Lithium-ion battery, while the round trip efficiency is much lower. And that’s not even including the mass overhead for mining lunar water!"""

Re:Powering the Lunar Base by jhgb on Thursday August 12, 2021 @08:44AM (#28155531)
Yes, but that makes no sense. Partly because as I said, lots of those components will be mandatory anyway so they should count into the fuel cell system at best only partially, and partly because pretty much the only part that scales with capacity is the tanks anyway. The rest scales overwhelmingly with average power instead.