BBC News: Molten metal batteries for the grid

[Nan and Sandy Sanders]

Back in the olden days (1980 or so) I went in to the power room in a 
computer center about 5 or 6 blocks from the real big substation on 
Sunrise Valley Dr (except then it was about 1/5th the size) and there 
was a sign on the wall above the MG sets to coordinate starting and 
stopping with VEPCO.
      Sandy
     WB5MMB


At 07:48 PM 9/22/2014, Rob Seastrom wrote:



>That doesn't strike me as a very friendly thing to do to the grid...
>I've heard stories about big cyclotrons and the like that require
>coordination with the utility to turn them on and off...  but I wonder
>what kind of accommodation a proliferation of these (and Tesla
>Superchargers, which draw 120kW) might mean for the grid.
>
>-r
>
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