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Vistra's battery storage facility goes up in flames, spurs evacuation orders (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Yeah, I think massive chemical batteries for storing excess electricity to facilitate a contrived green energy market is a bad idea.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

LIthium Iron Phosphate is cheapest relatively dense battery type. Sodium ion will be if lithium get expensive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can draw an arbitrary line of density you find good enough. But with how much space us wasted in some countries, that line should vary a bit place to place

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

With 40 foot containers providing utility or smaller scale storage solutions of 2.9mwh per container with LFP batteries, that is about 170mwh per acre. Before stacking. I don't believe a lack of density matters anywhere in the world. Spare space inside buildings is usually sufficient for building needs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

A lack of density definitely matters in some places. I've been to a bunch of countries now, some have plenty of space, some really don't