Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Innovations for a new era of energy storage | Transforming Business" video.

  1. It's 50 or 60 Hz depending on the grid (or 400 in aircraft and some other specialized applications). Also it's not the battery that maintains sync with utility power, it's the inverter -- most solar installations have no battery backup of their own, just whatever automatic voltage regulation capabilities its associated inverter can do.
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  2. It’s 50 Hz in most of the world.
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  3. Capacitors are better as a buffer as opposed to a storage, especially given how catastrophically they break if something inside fails.
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  4. Sand used as heat batteries are exactly the type that’s not getting plundered.
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  5. Except for how nuclear byproducts remain unalterably toxic for like 10000 years afterward. There’s a reason only the most competent societies are trusted with its possession ☢️
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