• frezik
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    1 year ago

    How long will it take for us to get good enough batteries? If it’s less than 10 years, then it’s less than the time to build a nuclear power plant.

    Oh, and the answer may very well be that we already have batteries that are good enough.

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      1 year ago

      How long will it take for us to get good enough batteries?

      Including the time to manufacture and install them at utility scales (we are talking powering an entire nation out of batteries for hours), way more than a decade.

      Batteries are already being installed on grids but they can only help so much smooth out power delivery. They are very very far from having the ability to completely take over an entire grid.

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        1 year ago

        And you think the nuclear industry, riddled with a history of cost and schedule overruns, is going to get there faster?

        Mass production is about all we need for some battery technologies. Their lab development stage has already been done. They also integrate well with solar deployments, because you can use the same inverter for both.