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Vistra's battery storage facility goes up in flames, spurs evacuation orders (www.yahoo.com)
submitted 2 weeks 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] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's power, not energy.

MegaWattHours is energy for example.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And power is a measure of energy over time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, and? Measuring an energy storage facility in terms of power is not a good idea.

If you asked someone how big a water tank was and they said "five liters per second", would that be useful?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It would be very useful if you were asking the right question. The storage facility from the article has a 750 MW storage capacity (energy) which it can deliver at a max output (power) of 3000 MW/hr Power plant and storage facility capacities are measured in MW since what they are intended to do is supply power at a steady rate. Who cares if you can store a billion TW of power if you can only output it at 5mW/h. It does no good if you can't get it out. Supply is what we really care about here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

True to your name, you’re using those backwards. You’re thinking of MW hours per hour, or just MW. Put differently, MW is a rate, MWh is a quantity.

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

Lol didn't see the name 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

This guy gets it.