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Douglas_Knight comments on Stupid Questions May 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: Gondolinian 01 May 2015 05:28PM

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 02 May 2015 03:36:27PM 1 point [-]

That hasn't stooped Musk planning to couple batteries with solar power.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 03 May 2015 01:44:32AM 1 point [-]

The question was about the present, not the future. Maybe Musk will be able to lower the price of batteries in the future, but his current price is pretty much what I said. What he has achieved is to make lithium batteries about as cheap as existing consumer batteries, not even as cheap as the sodium-sulfur batteries that power companies use at the moment, let alone what is necessary for widespread deployment.