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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

3.6 MW even. :)

3.6 kW is what a 50cc internal combustion engine typically produces

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Here's my working. There are about 31.56 million seconds in a year, which I rounded to 30 million, and so

    30 GWh/year
    = 30x10^9 Wh / year
    ~ 30x10^9 Wh / 30x10^6 s
    = 10^3 Wh/s
    = 1 kWh / s
    = 3600 kWs / s
    = 3.6 kw

    I used the duckduckgo autocalculator just now, and 30/31.56*3.6 is about 3.4, so it's much closer to 3.4kW.

    (It's not power output, it's manufactured storage output. I think of it as like a factory that produces 3.4 litre capacity jugs per second, but they're not jugs, they're actually batteries. Big ones.)

    They could make a 120kWh battery (which would give a family car a range in the region of 450 miles) every two minutes.

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