On 26/08/2019 10:18, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 15:22:34 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

The costs, pollution, energy consumption in manufacture and vast
demand for lead would be problematic.

More likely to be lithium than lead. But isn't there some other
weird
and wonderful battery technology about using molten sulphur or
something?

Half a gigawatt is a long way from running the grid

True but it might be the half a gigawatt of dispatchable that keeps
the frequency up just enough...


2GW probably would have, but we don't know for how long the batteries
could supply it for.

This is going o be the next "con".. FITs for installing batteries.
It effectively government borrowing but it doesn't go on the books and
the consumers pay for it in the end.

harry will have one of them as soon as he can make enough cash from it.