Battery Megafactory Forecast: 400% Increase in Capacity to 1 TWh by 2028

[NeoGreen]

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Battery Megafactory Forecast: 400% Increase in Capacity to 1 TWh by 2028

Battery Megafactory Forecast

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When ground broke on the massive Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada in 2014, the world marveled at the project’s audacity, size, and scope.

At the time, it was touted that the cutting-edge facility would be the largest building in the world by footprint, and that the Gigafactory would single-handedly be capable of doubling the world’s lithium-ion battery production capacity.

What many did not realize, however, is that although as ambitious and as forward-looking as the project sounded, the Gigafactory was just the start of a trend towards scale in the battery making space. While Tesla’s facility was the most publicized, it would ultimately be one of many massive factories in the global pipeline.

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In just a decade, lithium-ion battery megafactories around the world will have a combined production capacity equivalent to 22 Tesla Gigafactories!

The majority of this capacity will be located in China, which is projected to have 57% of the global total.

[NNadir]

1. So what?

At 411 ppm reached this year, the anti-nuke gas worshipping community is still offering predictions?

By 2028? Really?

What about Amory Lovins 1976 prediction we'd have 20 exajoules (Quads in his non-SI rhetoric) of solar in this country "by 2000?"

There isn't 2 exajoules of energy produced by the toxic solar industry on the whole damned planet, but there is a whole lot of electronic waste that many of the solar cells will become "by 2028" that people who are small children today will need to clean up, this with no resources.

Every single word out of the mouthes of anti-nukes is soothsaying.

Climate change is NOW. People are dying NOW. Cities and coasts are being destroyed NOW.

Bullshit about toxic thermodynamically and ecological battery nightmares "by 2028" is simply a statement that one is hoping for things to get worse, not better.