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		LikeBeans 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BYD launches sodium-ion grid-scale BESS product I can imagine running electric wires along tha tracks is a big challenge. However I think using the container BESS mentioned in the video above receiving trickle charge from the grid would leave opportunities for local solar generation to augment the grid too. Think of it like a decentralized solution. Scales much more and provides resilience against outages.

elcritch 3 days ago [–]

Wiring up the tracks shouldn't be expensive. See there's two metal tracks, just use one for the positive line and one for the negative line. ;)

AstralStorm 3 days ago | [–]

Well, the tracks are normally gapped, they still need to be adapted to be high current continuous.

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