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Solar and wind energy could fulfill energy demand 10-fold, Oxford study finds::undefined

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[-] Womble@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Terrawatt is 10^12 so 1000 tonnes of battery would give you around 200MWh of storage. To get to 2000 TWh you are looking at 10,000,000,000 tonnes of Li-ion batteries. For a bit of scale, thats like turning around 10% of mount Everest into battery.

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