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North Carolina is getting a $1.4B sodium-ion battery gigafactory (electrek.co)

submitted 2 months ago by ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How do you create gigawatts of batteries. Wouldn’t it be something more like gigawatt-hours of batteries?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it's probably GWh, W and Wh are frequently interchanged.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

yes

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah you're probably right.

Although the peak power you can withdraw from a battery is also an important factor, the energy capacity would be the expected size to be reported here.