
Jesse Peltan
@JessePeltan · 15 mai 2025
I keep seeing "sure, maybe solar works, but what about all the materials you need for the batteries?"
A battery that can store 100% of the daily production of a solar panel - *weighs less than the solar panel.*
Batteries are the most mass efficient way to provide peak power.

Jesse Peltan@JessePeltan· 3 mai 2025At ~150 Wh/kg, a 23kg LFP battery pack could store the full daily production of a 38 kg 720 W solar panel.
Solar + batteries provides orders of magnitude more energy per unit mass compared to any chemical fuel.
A battery has a much lower specific energy density than diesel, but
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Tesla did a long analysis of this (too long)
22:43 · 15 mai 2025 · 37 k vues
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