Originally Posted by
ian
running three phase off a battery would be easy -- provided yo had a big enough battery.
The bigger issue I see relates to lithium itself and the other rareish metals used in batteries. Is there enough easily accessible lithium in the world to even build a battery big enough to provide 5.5 GWh of power? 5.5 GWh is roughly equivalent to the Eastern States average total electricity consumption across 24 hours? If it is to cover a 24 hour summer "peak" the battery might need to be 1.5 times that size. If I have the maths right, 5.5 GWh is over 100 times the size of the battery that Tesla is building for the SA Government.
And if we are fair dinkum, every grid in the world will need a proportionally sized battery.