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Old 05-03-2015, 09:46 AM   #16 (permalink)
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Storage will help the grid now - conventional power plants are not the steady things that we somehow think they are. And storage along with solar PV will lower the need for peaker plants. Peaker plants are very expensive relative to the power they generate.

How can all the batteries fail at once? The Tesla batteries are warrantied for 10 years, and they will fail in onesies and twosies.
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