TESLA Home Battery for solar storage

http://ift.tt/1cxzuZR

According to this, the Tesla battery will be much cheaper than current options and will make solar more attractive.

Quote:

Tesla Motors is about to mass produce batteries that could change the global demand for power, and yet Australia is still pinning its short-term hopes on coal. Where's our long-term plan? Mike Steketee writes. Elon Musk calls it "a fundamental transformation of how the world works". The founder and chief executive of Tesla Motors, the pioneer of all-electric cars in the US, was announcing the company's move into the mass production of batteries that can store electricity for residential use, solving the problem of the intermittent nature of solar and wind power. He says that his system of "stored sunlight" can be scaled up to literally any size - like the whole world - ending reliance on fossil fuels. They are big claims and they may turn out to be exaggerated. But even making due allowance for Hollywood-type hype, Musk's announcement looks significant. His proposed battery units are based on those he is making already for Tesla cars. The "gigafactory" that will produce them to power homes is under construction in Nevada. Tesla is taking orders now, at $US3500 apiece, for the Powerwall units that can be attached to the wall of a house.

Simple, (relatively) cheap, small. I feel like buying one myself to see how it goes.

via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/1bEN2RP