Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Energy Independence Through Community Batteries, Wind and Solar" video.

  1. Aerospace Engineer here: This sounds more like a political and management issue rather than a technical issue. The idea of a community battery, especially in country towns makes an awful lot of sense. Buying a bigger industrial size battery in a 10ft or 20ft container SHOULD be a lot cheaper than smaller individual power walls. I was just touting today with someone talking about the costs of nuclear and they were whining about the costs of safety and labour. Safety and labour cost NOTHING compared to bad project management. What's more if there are Cost Plus (C+) contracts involved then bad management can be MORE profitable than good management. People often misunderstand that if a C+ project is mismanaged and takes longer the contractors make more money. For example. On a 1 million man hour project with each man costing $100/hr which in the remote mining industry is realistic. Those million hours cost $100 million. If the C+ rate is 20% then the contractor makes $20 million (cost + 20%). BUT if the contractor works a little slower and is allowed to get away with it. OR if the project managers allow too many design adjustments that take longer. AND THEN the contractor hours go up 10% to 1.1million hours the cost become $110 million and the profit becomes $22 million. Its not bad working poorly or just letting project managers stuff up to get an extra $2 million. That's what's killing projects across the Western World.
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  2. ALL UP GREAT VID
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