Betteridge strikes again!

Well there you go. This would explain why "ras" called it "the worlds biggest battery".

But how do we make it show us the unobserved universe? ;)

Nope, that honor goes to CMOS image sensors from the 90s. See also: https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/m...

That would explain plenty.

I never said it was, I just said I liked it. Seriously, why are idiots all jumping on the fact that I like it's origin?

People don't know what computer science is but when you tell them that the word "science" is literally from the Latin for "knowledge" it quickly dispels misconceptions about science. This then creates a good starting point when explaining what a "computer knowledge-ist" or "one with knowledge of computers" does. This important to me because I have had to explain what I do as a computer scientist a zillion times and how it's different from a computer engineer or software developer.

Being told why I like something? Well this ought to be good.

Nope. I do not believe that all knowledge is derived from the scientific method and frankly, you've made a giant leap in logic by assuming that.

Well... I'll give this, your reasoning is on par with ChatGPT.

Where did you get your definitions?

Here are the relevant ones from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...

Frankly, I like that it literally means "knowledge".

The study is for the US only, not globally.
Research paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10...

Here is a bar graph showing the impacts of installing solar by region.
Data/calculations repo to generate graphs: https://github.com/NSAPH-Proje...

While, I'm a bit disjointed that they didn't bother to generate a map, I do understand why. Without having detailed information about the conditions in each county, their map could easily be used to misinform people in leadership positions or worse, used by people in leadership positions to misinform the public.

Maybe you are right but I haven't looked at exactly what Musk said. However, I do however see a few possibilities that may explain the claim:

• * He said it was the largest lithium-ion battery and the press probably dropped the qualifier.
• * He said it was the most powerful (129 MWh @ 100 MW) and it got mangled in press to imply it had the highest storage capacity.
• * He said it was the largest grid-scale battery and it's physical dimensions exceed that of other batteries. ( i have no idea how large Hornsdale Power Reserve is.)
• * He said it was the largest battery project which referred to it's expense ($50M).

Remember, the press often sources their information from other press sources which means technicalities like this are easily fumbled and lost along the way.

The one in japan was actually a 300 MWh @ 50MW Sodium-Sulfur battery and 14,000 m^2 footprint according to this report.

Do not underestimate the capability of a slick salesman to deceive people based on a technicality without actually lying (according to US law).

Why? Sodium-ion batteries come in 18650 cells just like lithium-ion batteries but they don't match the capacity. However, the difference isn't so significant that you can't simply have a larger version of a Tesla Powerwall that has the same capacity.

Who said you can't? Tesla Powerwall is a battery system that you can buy.

That is a weird hot take because that's exactly wrong.

"A while ago Australia installed what was at the time the worlds biggest battery. Not long after a coal fired generator dropped out, as in one cycle the are generating megawatts, the next cycle 50ms later it was gone. I'm not sure what your definition of "instantly" is, but to a computer and an inverter the 50ms AC cycle is an eternity. The battery was in another state, but it had no trouble carrying the load for it's neighbour for long enough for a gas fired plant to fire up. Trying doing that with spinning turbines." - https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

"the reaction speed of battery based storage systems is so insanely fast and powerful that the AMEO had to create a whole new market so the costs get accounted correctly for battery based systems. Previous FCAS (frequency control and ancillary services) billed in intervals of minutes because that's how existing systems operated. Batteries and their inverters however have shown to be able to resolve frequency deviations on the grid faster than systems could account for them. Originally a new market was created for FCAS to be billed in 6 second intervals, but even that was too slow for battery based systems, and last year AMEO raised a draft proposal to change that to either 1 second or 50millisecond." - https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

250ms is slooow compared to batteries.

Maybe you're right or maybe not, I don't know. What I do know is that the law is very malleable which means should this occur then it would not surprise me if the law is changed for when foreign corps are involved.