On: BYD unveils world's largest 14.5 MWh DC energy storage system

[toomuchtodo]

These prices keep falling faster than the graphs can get updated, which is quite humorous imho.

https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-battery-cell-pric...

https://rmi.org/the-rise-of-batteries-in-six-charts-and-not-...

https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy25osti/93281.pdf

https://about.bnef.com/insights/commodities/lithium-ion-batt...

[actionfromafar → toomuchtodo]

Ah, but you see, battery storage is ackshully impossible, we must have nukular, clean, beautiful coal instead of golf course destroying wind mills and solar.

[karmakurtisaani → actionfromafar]

I see you've visited an energy discussion thread on HN before.

[actionfromafar → karmakurtisaani]

Thought I'd save three commenters the trouble. Although now we are kind of spoiling that.

[tim333 → actionfromafar]

But nuclear is cheap and easy! Look at our Hinkley C, announced 2010, maybe operational 2030 and only £45bn! How are batteries going to compete?

[actionfromafar → tim333]

I wonder what 45bn of batteries would get us. I imagine a lot of batteries.