Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> That's one whopping capacitor!
>
Storage capacity 218,000+ times larger.
<http://www.tva.gov/heritage/mountaintop/index.htm>
Peak delivery power capacity considerably larger, although considerably
smaller as a % of total capacity. Takes more than a second to spin those
turbines up, though.
1,600 MW for 22 hrs is 126,720,000 MJ, I think, compared to 580 MJ for
the kinetic storage unit.
Been There Moose
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