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World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage (www.ess-news.com)
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[–] -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Lol,

Batteries are perfect for load balancing.

Please, know your facts

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    The main issue with using batteries for load balancing is the massive resource investment required for them at a grid level, BUT that's more of a concern with lithium based batteries due to a number of factors. Sodium batteries use way more easily accessible and abundant materials.

    NGL I'm hella fuckin hyped about sodium batteries vs lithium batteries.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Batteries can't stabilise frequency. If the frequency changes too much, the grid will go down.

    You literally need a giant spinning turbine for this.

    It's pretty basic energy engineering, and is not related to load balancing.

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