L4sBotMB to TechnologyEnglish • 1 year agoSolar and wind energy could fulfill energy demand 10-fold, Oxford study findscherwell.orgmessage-square29arrow-up1164arrow-down13file-text
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minus-square@WomblelinkEnglish1•edit-21 year agoTerrawatt is 10^12 so 1000 tonnes of battery would give you around 200MWh of storage. To get to 2000 TWh you are looking at 10,000,000,000 tonnes of Li-ion batteries. For a bit of scale, thats like turning around 10% of mount Everest into battery.
Terrawatt is 10^12 so 1000 tonnes of battery would give you around 200MWh of storage. To get to 2000 TWh you are looking at 10,000,000,000 tonnes of Li-ion batteries. For a bit of scale, thats like turning around 10% of mount Everest into battery.