How big a solar battery do I need to store *all* my home's electricity?
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I have a modest set of solar panels on an entirely ordinary house in suburban London. On average they generate about 3,800kWh per year. We also use about 3,800kWh of electricity each year. Obviously, we can't use all the power produced over summer and we need to buy power in winter. So here's my question: How big a battery would we need in order to be completely self-sufficient? Background …

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      The most straightforward path to world peace is to increase the global supply of energy to the point of negligibly low prices

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        I like the idea that the real reason for all of the atrocities is that people don’t have enough power to play Xbox.

      • Riddick3001@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        9 hours ago

        I believe it would attribute to cheaper of free energy and to more peace. I am agreeing with you.

        And I imagined a all encompassing " worldgrid" across all continents and islands. We did it with phone networks, now we should do energy.