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Largest Sodium Sulfur Battery Powers a Texas Town
separsons writes "The largest sodium sulfur battery in America, nicknamed 'BOB,' can provide enough electricity to power all of Presidio, Texas. Until now, the small town relied on a single 60-year-old transmission line to connect it to the grid, so the community frequently experienced power outages. BOB, which stands for 'Big-Old Battery,' began charging earlier this week. The house-sized battery can deliver four megawatts of power for up to eight hours. Utilities are looking into similar batteries to store power from solar and wind so that renewables can come online before the country implements a smart grid system."
But they all agreed on Purple Monkey Dishwasher.
"You saved 1968." - Ms. Valerie Pringle to the crew of Apollo 8
They all agree the battery costs $25mill, 2/3 agree that the 2nd transmission line will be built in 2012, and none of them agree on the price of the 2nd line.
You don't work in IT do you? If you did you'd realise that sounds like any typical project plan.
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Look in any computer shop and you'll see NaS storage systems!
Call me old-fashioned, but I'd go 100% eco with a gerbil in a wheel or a hand crank if the demand doesn't exceed 4mW.
Wet being the other
Just go static, stick two metal rods in a lemon.
What a depressingly stupid machine.
Nah, they just used the Vista file copy dialog to calculate the price.
You mean a BOL - Big Old Lemon.
It's the BIG OL' BAT'RY. You bunch of citified nerds. Have some respect for the Good-Old Boys.