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nickcwyesterday at 12:53 PM4 repliesview on HN

1.4 GW power, 6 GWh capacity

6 GWh is approximately 5 kilotons of TNT equivalent.

Would make a big bang should it go off.


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wongarsuyesterday at 2:22 PM

Batteries tend to burn instead of explode. Same energy, but released over much more time. And while an uncontained battery fire is a huge issue in a private home or in a car park because of how difficult they are to control, in a dedicated battery storage plant you can just let it burn down

It's not without risk, but as far as power plants go it's pretty low risk

cbmuseryesterday at 8:42 PM

The nearby nuclear power plant produced these 6 GWh every four and a half hours, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and more than 8000 days of the year.

pjc50yesterday at 12:55 PM

Would you like to run the same calculations for the (now decomissioned) nuclear power plant on the same site?

Or for that matter the average petrol or natural gas storage facility? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buncefield_fire ("Europe's largest peacetime explosion")

KaiserProyesterday at 9:34 PM

its about 21600 gigajoules or about 1500 tonnes of wheat.