"Home Batteries" Power Houses For a Week 325
tjansen writes "Panasonic has announced plans to create 'home batteries.' They are lithium-ion batteries large enough to power a house for a week, making energy sources such as solar and wind power more feasible. Also, you can buy energy when it is cheapest, and don't need to worry about power outages anymore."
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Re:But what about the massive environmental damage (Score:1, Funny)
dude are you fucking kidding me? Ill bet life was a lot easier a thousand years ago when everyone farmed for twenty years, got rickets or dysentery, then died by the time they were 25, had no wealth or land or civil rights. Yea, thats way better than my life right now. Youre a fucking moron. Go move to zimbabwe or the DRC and see how you like living in harmony with nature.
Re:Boom. (Score:3, Funny)
I don't trust lithium-ion technology enough to want something with that much capacity in my basement.
So, you keep it in a shed. What's the problem?
-jcr
I don't have a big enough shed.
Re:Boom. (Score:4, Funny)
What happens when you drive it over a cliff in a movie? Your typical gas powered movie car will explode in a giant fireball before it ever hits anythin on the way down (cue tire rolling out of burning wreckage). How would an all electric vehicle fare? There should be, at the least, a giant lightning bolt, St. Elmo's fire, and a Jacobs Ladder effect on the antenna. Flashes of blue light in the passengers mouths would also be appropriate, like in Star Wars.