It makes a lot of sense as 800MWh available within ms (especially directly linked to a major grid hub like it is the case here, Laufenburg is famous for it as it’s also the point where the swiss and German grids meet) is the wet dream of every grid planer that has to stabilize a network. That is around 12% of the whole average power draw of Switzerland. Which is impressive.
We need more of these.
There are various working redux flow large capacity batteries operating already (as mentioned in the article as well), e.g. Daillan, in Japan, this one is just a tad bit larger
Usually these are auctioned of at industrial/buiness auction houses. So check out the various bancruptcy auction houses or find out who is their liquidator and ask them. But be warned, it’s rarely worth it.
Codeberg is operated by a German registered chairty foundation - the can’t legally be bought at all.
Hard aka impossible to buy a German registered charity.
You are wrong - nuclear is not cheap to run. It only used to be because the state limited the possible liability the companies faced in case of a malfunction and due to the fact that the nuclear waste costs were not part of the equation.
For Germany the price per kwh for a newly constructed nuclear plant would be around 45-63 ct/kwh - according to the power companies themselves. They aren’t interested in running these any more for a reason.
FYI: The writer works for a AI-based security company and,well,seems to fit in there.
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You can’t live in them directly, but I literally lived within 2min from there for a few years.
These clocks were installed far later than the towers.
The construction for the first one started in 1233.
The one with the part of the wall missing is from 1260, they are all part of the old defence walls of the city of Villingen.
I literally drove through two of them today.
Passbolt seems to be a upcoming competitor. It’s EU based, OSS, etc., but has not been audited as much as BW and has not achieved feature parity so far.
But it looks very promising.