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4. It seems quite scalable

Reply to Auggie (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 26, 2012, 06:41 PM

Mar 2012

Sounds like a battery the size of a shipping container could service service several hundred homes so that would potentially work at the substation level. For people off the grid, something the size of a large appliance might meet their needs.

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Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy [View all] pokerfan Mar 2012 OP

Great post, thanks... MindMover Mar 2012 #1

There have been a lot of 'promising' technologies 'suggesting' much better batteries to come.... PoliticAverse Mar 2012 #2

Fantastic -- can't come soon enough! Auggie Mar 2012 #3

It seems quite scalable pokerfan Mar 2012 #4

One shipping container usrname Mar 2012 #5