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Climate Change / Re: Ford “Drastically” Cutting EV Lightning Workforce Hours
« Last post by Hoodat on Today at 09:31:24 pm »They have battery backup I believe.
Fifteen acres of solar panels to power that plant. Still not sure how they power it at night, but it would take a gargantuan amount of batteries to source 480 VAC for basic plant operation. I suspect they have worked out a tradeoff with normal power generation where they supply excess power to the grid during the day and recover that power back at night. Which means that even though they can claim to net zero, they are still dependent on nighttime power generation from other sources.
And fifteen acres of land? That's a heck of an impact on nature. Fifteen acres no longer available for anything else, including CO2 removal by a typical forest.
https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2023/05/solar-project-powers-all-of-black-deckers-kentucky-factory/