Tesla Powerwall as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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915 words · ~4 min read
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batteries we're used to finding them in our flashlights remotes phones cameras
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cars boats and even our adult oriented toys but apparently Elon Musk has gone
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and shaken things up again by suggesting that we all go and put batteries in our
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homes lonus we already keep batteries for all that crap in our
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homes ow so Tesla power wall then the
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premise is fairly simple lower your electricity costs by consuming less
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during peak hours and more during off peak hours when it's cheaper and more
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ecologically friendly to generate it or when paired with solar panels reduce
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your Reliance on your City's power grid or even sell some of the power you
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generate back to the local utility company but let's open up with some
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criticism at $3,000 us for a 7 KW hour
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capacity model or 500 more for a 10 KW
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hour capacity power walls are expensive
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but the the truth of the matter is that thanks to its features the power wall
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simply isn't competing with anything right now so for anyone who would needed
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a backup solution for power outages anyway the benefits of using Tesla's
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batteries for this application conserving Fuel and money during peak
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hours and reduce Reliance on the grid without being detached from it seems to
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outweigh the cost for many including entities like Amazon since the power
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wall and its industrialized cousin the power pack ended up selling out nearly
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as fast as the PlayStation 2 did but what about the performance detractors
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point out at 2 kilow continuous and 3.3
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KW Max you can easily overpower a power
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wall with a handful of microwave ovens and if 7 kilowatt hours or even 10
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kilowatt hours really enough capacity anyway the average North American Home
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uses about 30 kilowatt hours of electricity per day adding a few extra
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kilowatt hours for folks who really love watching the tumble dryer run which
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means that it would take more than one bigger unit for pretty much any
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household to have enough stored energy to get through the evening with all of
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their devices calling for juice at the same time so that's expensive hey the
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batteries themselves plus installation inverters or solar panels depending on
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your setup so why not save some serious scratch and do it yourself well first
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off it turns out that it takes about 10 deep cycle lead-based batteries to equal
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the storage capacity of a single 10 KW
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power wall and at a conservative cost of
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$150 per battery that puts you at about half of the Tesla solution without
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having factored in electrical components connections maintenance costs over time
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and the fact that you'd have to have the world's most understanding wife to let
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you wall mount a tangled mess of car batteries and wires in your garage
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secondly with homemade units owners are usually restricted to on-site power
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generation and it's at least not as easy
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or efficient to switch between grid and
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battery power compared to the power wall but is the concept of this home battery
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system even practical anyway Christopher Helman from Forbes points out that at an
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estimated cost of 30 cents per kilowatt hour within the reasonable lifespan that
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is discharges and charges for your battery pack most North Americans would
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actually end up paying far more for their power overall than if they just
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bought it from their electric company anyway but I guess that how all these
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things start out anyway and while I won't be lining up to buy a power wall
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I'm definitely excited for a future where energy storage is Affordable and
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practical speaking of affordable and practical fresh books it's designed for
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little details like you know history for your invoices and seeing if your client
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has actually looked at the invoice yet and getting them to pay through the
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you should be using stuff that makes you feel like a boss and fresh books allows
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