Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy

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5. One shipping container

Can supply 200 homes (according to the show). Stack a hundred of them on a pier and supply 20,000 homes.

Of course, these batteries still need to be hooked up to the grid to absorb the energy (presumably from solar or wind) before it can be released.

I wonder where it could be best utilized. I'd imagine a huge array of solar panels in the desert off of Las Vegas, generating electricity that will then be stored in these shipping containers stored in the outskirts of the city. By nightfall, these batteries will be used to supply electricity to the city. It could make Las Vegas electrically self-sufficient.

(Now, if only we can get Vegas to recycle their own water use...)