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Instead, it can scale out, by mass-producing small modules and running batteries of them.

1.5 MW is not a lot, of course, you need two orders of magnitude more to feed a large city. Still could work great for small cities, especially remote and cold, if cost of production, construction, and service would be reasonably low. That's where the economy of scale could kick in.




1.5 MW is the output of a medium sized wind turbine. Of course, the "battery" has controllable, rather than variable, output.




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