The war in Iraq cost a trillion dollars.

banktops 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

1 week national battery storage is totally doable. All we need to do is convince the rest of the planet to stop making GPUs, phones, computers, and EVs for the next decade, and then give us all their rocks. 78.4TWh is about $19T (all in costs) for a national battery grid for 1 week storage, could be built over ten years but would need the US to build and own double the current global output, not even considering where all the raw materials and labor comes from.

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eptcyka an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So far.

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Saline9515 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you imply that it was really cheap, just like solar+batteries?

	▲	adrianN an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You generally get more return on investment if you invest in building infrastructure in your own country rather than investing in blowing up infrastructure in a different country. So I’m implying that solar and batteries are a lot cheaper than the war in Iraq.

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