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Total efficiency of batteries is 80%/2 = 40%

Your own link literally says this isn't true.

According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), in 2019, the U.S. utility-scale battery fleet operated with an average monthly round-trip efficiency of 82%,




Yes... but if the battery is only available 50% of the time the effective efficiency is lower. This is what is meant by capacity.

Math is hard. Understanding efficiencies via words is harder :)


First, batteries aren't only available "50% of the time", where does that come from?

Second, that isn't how 'efficiency' works, it is the percentage you get back from what you put in and your own link says 82%. Where are you getting these ideas?

efficiency is lower. This is what is meant by capacity.

Capacity or efficiency? You're getting your terms mixed up.

Math is hard. Understanding efficiencies via words is harder :)

It isn't that hard if you're talking about things that are true and make sense.


"First, batteries aren't only available "50% of the time", where does that come from? "

Cited from the source, from my first comment.


You didn't cite anything you made up numbers that have nothing to do with what you linked.

Batteries are permanently connected to the grid and I'm not an electrician but I'm pretty sure that makes them available 100% of the time.

I get that you're anti battery for some reason and you're trying hard to play word games and twist definitions, but this isn't reality.




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