Tesla Megapack peaking plants up to 730-MWh

[aerohead]

While I slept, Tesla's been selling their modular, plug-and-play, Megapack, grid-scale battery systems to supplant natural gas-fired turbine peaking plants.
April 2022, the Moss Landing, California, PG&E facility opened, with 730-MWh capacity.
They're in Australia, Alaska, Japan, and Texas as well.
As with their cars and trucks, these peaking plants receive over-the-air software upgrades, and have 'Powerhub' and 'Autobidder' packages which help monitoring & control, machine-learning, and automatic energy trading functions.
They're saving the customers money, and have up to a 20-year warranty.
Tesla's Gigafactory, Nevada is @ 92% recycling efficiency of Lithium-ion batteries.
Panasonic's Megapack, solar, hydrogen fuel cell: Kusatsu, Kyoto, Japan, Ene-Farm, manufacturing facility is hedging alternate energy technologies to cover all, power interruption contingencies.
In light of global governmental impotency, filthy, on-going climate conferences, and inability to actually 'act,' in dealing with climate challenges, it may turn out that, capitalists just go ahead and solve the problem on their own, and get wealthy in the process.

[redpoint5]

That was always the only possible solution. Global cooperation to voluntarily limit wealth doesn't exist in this universe. Lavish parties to pretend that's what people are going to do are real though.

[freebeard]

Anarchism, I tells ya.

While I slept....

Is Anthropogenic Climate Change still inexorable or not?

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Anarchism, I tells ya.



Is Anthropogenic Climate Change still inexorable or not?

Seems like the really perspicacious scientists, closest to the data, and the gravity of the implications of the data, feel that we've already blown past the target temperature and are locked into realities not conducive to polite ( broadcast ) conversations.
In less than 200-years, we'll be going from the Holocene, back into the Eocene.
And like Greta Thunberg, I'll defer to the scientists.

[freebeard]

Think of all the new real estate in Antarctica!

It looks like G. Thunberg has better media people, base on her recently reply to Andrew Tate (not conducive to polite ( broadcast ) conversations).

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Think of all the new real estate in Antarctica!

It looks like G. Thunberg has better media people, base on her recently reply to Andrew Tate (not conducive to polite ( broadcast ) conversations).

Exquisite!

[wdb]

Whilst you all whinge about government ineffectiveness, those entities continue to produce gigantic ca$h incentive$ and tax break$ for those doing the actual work. Like DARPA, working in ways we may or may not see. So ***** away, but also be thankful that smart people still want to serve in governments.

[freebeard]

Government effectiveness is sort of a loose cannon. Example being Chyna.

Smarty-pants, yes, but the scum rises to the top.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

It looks like G. Thunberg has better media people, base on her recently reply to Andrew Tate (not conducive to polite ( broadcast ) conversations).

Of course, I only am aware of that Tweet because of that Garfield cartoonist.

I'm liking Gretta slightly more after that one.

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by wdb

Whilst you all whinge about government ineffectiveness, those entities continue to produce gigantic ca$h incentive$ and tax break$ for those doing the actual work. Like DARPA, working in ways we may or may not see. So ***** away, but also be thankful that smart people still want to serve in governments.

As an associate of Klaatu, stationed at our Earth-Observing, and listening post, at the Sea of Tranquility, our intercepts of communications inform us that, climate mitigation, as a function of government policy, has been continuously frustrated by a passive mechanism in the form of the 'Due Process' clause, of the 14th-Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which has stood since 1885.
As a structural road block, baked into the 'American' system, there's a low probability that it can ever be rectified, and so, any grand gesture 'solution' to the Earth climate challenge would, by default, have to come from outside the 'beltway.'
That said, we people of the solar system have taken extreme comfort from any mistakes made in the people's interest, and activities that fell through the cracks by public servants, academia, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Laboratories, CIA, NRO, NSA, FBI, Military Intelligence, RAND Corporation, US Congress Special Committees, and the private sector, etc.; whom escaped the clutches of Washington lobbyists of a certain stripe.
While we reserve the option of activating Gort, we'll continue to monitor for the time being.