Sorry , did I say bigger ? I meant biggest . The townsfolk of Presidio , Texas has work up the biggest NaS battery in the US , capable of store up to four megawatts of power for up to eight hours . They even nickname it .
Big Old Battery ( or BOB , as it ’s affectionately advert to by topical anesthetic , to the extent that one can bear on with philia to a atomic number 11 sulfur battery ) commence charging this week . Before BOB , Presidio ’s only link to the US tycoon grid was a infection line built in 1948 , which think fairly frequent stretches with no electricity . Now , they ’ve arrest a backup architectural plan that can power the total town .
The projection cost about $ 25 million to complete , which is a short over one-half as much as the $ 50 million require to work up a second transmittal line of products . A stamp battery obviously ca n’t power a town indefinitely , so they ’ll be summate that second bloodline soon . But in the interim , they ’ve got a fail good and a tourist attraction — for fan of battery and gigantism , anyway — all in one . [ NPRviaPopSci ]
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