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LaurieWired
@lauriewired
Whole-home lithium power used to be a rich man’s game. Now it’s “high-end graphics card” territory. This is a $2500, lithium polymer battery that would power an entire US residential house for >24hr. China is *crushing* it on kilowatt hours per dollar.
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LaurieWired
@lauriewired
Let’s put it into perspective. That battery is 2x the kWh of a tesla powerwall 3. Each powerwall will set you back $15k a piece. Residential battery setups usually cost $1000 per kWh. This is $80 per kWh.
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LaurieWired
@lauriewired
China’s selling these near the predicted theoretical limits. Domestic brands are a cool 10x more. Do you realize what possibilities this opens up? Instant micro-grids. 3 days of offline power for $10k. Crazy-durable power resiliency.
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LaurieWired
@lauriewired
When packed cells hit the $50-100 kWh range, batteries stop becoming the restraint. “Virtual transmission lines”, (aka digitally controlled, strategically placed battery storage) become *cheaper* than real transmission lines. Power becomes fungible. If the US wants to create a resilient grid; embracing the frontier of “last mile” battery storage is the key strategy to get there. We’re not making (or importing) enough of these.
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Jesse Peltan
@JessePeltan
Every home will have a battery.
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3. Real prices would be even lower today if it weren't for rising transmission and distribution (T&D) costs. Generation has gotten and continues to get a lot cheaper.
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Turb0Kat
@turb0kat
Sadly the Trump bill consolidates powergen and storage and blocks us from accessing local storage at affordable prices.
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Cogo
@aitoyshop
This is why we think toys matter. First we build resilient grids. Then we build resilient minds. Play teaches the logic of storage, transfer, and transformation — even before you know what a kilowatt is. 🧠⚡🧸
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Ziad
@ziad_hatab
Is it really the actual price of the material or subsidized? If they did reach a new level of innovation and actually use sustainable materials at such low cost, then everyone should follow the lead. Though, hard to believe.
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Kyle Choi 崔凯尔
@KCDN19
Powerlines, especially UHV, are still very useful in conjunction with batteries. If you have the right regulatory framework, disparate batteries can be used as a 'virtual power plant '.
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🎃x53A 🐀
@0x53A
I’ve looked into all-in-one battery storage (that is, including mppt, DCDC, bms) battery storage for my balcony, and current prices are 180€/kWh. 100€/kWh is the magic point where they’ll amortize in 3 years.
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Borascus
@Borascus
There will be a hard limit decided by the seller as to how many units are permissible to consumers in place n.
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R.G. Buttonsworth
@lbzoned
We don't even need batteries we can just turn our houses upside down and shake them to reset. (If I built the world out of my childhood toys)
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mamma says!
@mammasaysstuff
Coal is the future, baby! Of all the issues that Trump has warped MAGA into parroting, discrediting global warming, vaccine hesitancy, eroding democratic norms/checks and balances, eliminating basic research/NIH funding, discouraging/limiting talented college foreign students
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