The World's Biggest Battery (Classic)

Planet Money

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🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

California has a ton of solar power. But as soon as night falls, it's gone. Today on the show: how to bottle the sun

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:03.4	Hey, it's Robert Smith here.
0:07.9	Whenever clean energy is in the news, I always think back to this episode that we did a few
0:12.4	years ago.
0:13.6	Once you generate clean energy, you have to store it somewhere.
0:17.2	You need a battery.
0:19.0	And so we went on a hunt for the biggest one around.
0:21.6	The show started when Dan Charles and NPR corresponded, wanted to know what the weather
0:25.3	was like in Sacramento.
0:26.8	Hey Scott, it's Dan Charles.
0:28.9	Hey Dan.
0:29.9	How are you?
0:30.9	I'm Dode Fine.
0:31.9	I'm in Washington, DC.
0:33.8	Scott Flake is in Sacramento, California.
0:36.3	What's the, what's it like out there in Sacramento today?
0:39.2	Just weather-wise.
0:40.2	Beautiful, sunny day, clear skies, and warming up.
0:44.5	Scott's not in the forecasting business.
0:46.2	He is in the energy business.
0:48.1	So sunlight to him is money.
0:49.7	Take a look at this website, he says.
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