A link posted by Ody2k on the Musk channel:
New start up claiming zinc air battery that will break $100 per kWh. (LiIon is $3-400)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/busi ... power.html
This plus renewables will enable microgrids to pop up where nowt has existed.
Electrification is a slow burn that will have drastic productivity improvements over 20 years
Await productivity explosion across vast swathes of rural populations that have nothing now.
Wonder how best to tap into this?
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Re: What Africa needs
TUK020 wrote:A link posted by Ody2k on the Musk channel:
New start up claiming zinc air battery that will break $100 per kWh. (LiIon is $3-400)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/busi ... power.html
This plus renewables will enable microgrids to pop up where nowt has existed.
Electrification is a slow burn that will have drastic productivity improvements over 20 years
Await productivity explosion across vast swathes of rural populations that have nothing now.
Wonder how best to tap into this?
tuk020
Lithium ion battery packs are currently closing on $100 per kWh with Tesla suggesting they can do sub $100 by 2020:
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/09/10 ... s-in-2020/
Yes, if these prices hold it could very well be the African century as there is in general good sun levels in much of Africa such that zero fuel cost power
is possible and the capital costs can be amortised over battery and cell life times. This should make a huge difference to the poor folk in Africa.
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