"Home Batteries" Power Houses For a Week

tjansen writes "Panasonic has announced plans to create 'home batteries.' They are lithium-ion batteries large enough to power a house for a week, making energy sources such as solar and wind power more feasible. Also, you can buy energy when it is cheapest, and don't need to worry about power outages anymore."

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[yurtinus]

Certainly there's some risk of fire or explosion from a li-ion battery cell. I imagine just as there is risk of explosion from that propane tank in your BBQ grill, hot water heater, camp stove/lantern fuel, car tank full of gas, air compressor, and explosive diarrhea that you certainly no longer keep in or around your home!

But y'know, mindless paranoia has saved you from all those hybrid (NiMH) car battery explosions (that don't really happen... ever...). Phew, glad you dodged that bullet. Not to mention your link! God forbid ATT's equipment *outside* your house should fail catastrophically.

It's one thing to have a healthy fear of something that you can use it *safely*-- like say a gun or vacuum cleaner. It's entirely another to be ignorantly paranoid.