Solar, electric cars, batteries, and making money without trying.

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Originally Posted by caveman

Just curious where did you get your numbers from? and where did you get the info for #2? I am only asking because there is no FACKING way a big corporation is gonna pay some retard that has 700 batteries wired to the grid making it more unstable than it already is when they can tell that whack job to take a flying leap off a short pier and disconnect them for possibly causing a grid instability that threatens the rest of said grid.

I work for a power company and I have looked into this stuff and there is no way in hell they would knowingly allow you let alone pay you for your power.

Some of the assumptions are based on a very little bit of research on google. As an example one website said a typical car battery stores around 100 amp hours so I used that number. Some of the assumptions aren't based on fact at all. Specifically numbers 1, 2, 8, and 9 on my list are there as a way to keep the calculations simple. Wherever I decided to do this I made it as favorable as possible for the consumer just to see what kind of number it gave.

Realistically numbers 1 and 2 are the smaller assumptions. Number 8 is pure fantasy and number 9 may as well be. If someone actually had to pay for them it would run around $35,000 just for the batteries (at $50 per). I didn't even consider ancillary issues like where the hell do you safely store 14 tons of batteries (figuring 40lbs each) primarily made of lead and acid that also happens to vent a flammable gas (hydrogen).