From reply on FB group TSLA… Lee Davies The building where the cathode materials will be made is nothing but a field with the steel beams in piles waiting to be built into the cathode plant. It will take a year to build it and get it up and running. The building behind Joe is
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A new billion dollar 600 MW solar + 400 MW, 800 MWh battery storage plant will be built near Uhland, TX in 2022. This is just down the road from Giga Texas. https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/storage/texas-lands-1-billion-investment-in-solar-and-battery-projects/
This 15 minute video “webinar”: Learn about EV battery recycling breakthroughs. https://electrek.co/2021/11/24/ev-battery-recycling-breakthrough-free-15-minute-webinar-argonne/
The cells will have 900 Wh/kg, more than double the li-Ion cells. Cells were tested for 1400 charge/discharge cycles. Lyten is on San Jose, CA and has been making batteries for the government, military. https://youtu.be/9LfaIppP1Us
From :: https://cleantechnica.com/2021/10/15/when-are-we-going-to-stop-doing-stupid-in-the-name-of-going-green/ This article has some excellent recommendations at the end that we should all be doing. Here are quotes from this article inside << >> with my replies. << Fuel (fool) cells for light vehicles: Using fuel cells to make electricity from hydrogen made great sense for the Apollo moon mission, and they
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The solar energy melts aluminum at 600 deg. C and runs a Stirling engine even when the Sun isn’t shining. https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2021/10/11/electro-thermal-storage-system-for-commercial-applications-launched/
This guy runs everything off hydrogen. He makes his own, stores his own and powers everything from green hydrogen. He has six patents dealing with hydrogen. He made his own system. https://youtu.be/NMH1pBAYgYs GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MINI demonstrator. This is a similar setup. The solar array powers the electrolyzer. The green hydrogen is stored in metal hydride
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Many bad accusations made against BESS systems like Tesla’s Megapacks. https://stopthesethings.com/2019/02/11/renewable-storage-myth-busted-elon-musks-great-battery-conjob-exposed/
This company is reinventing the lithium ion battery. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-ion-batteries-sila-nanotechnologies
China has somewhat of an exclusive right to manufacture LFP batteries but the patent expires in 2022. https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/28/what-teslas-bet-on-iron-based-batteries-means-for-manufacturers/
