On more than one occasion, Eloy Musk, head of Tesla and SpaceX among others, can be branded as arrogant, due to the bets he has made on more than one occasion. The last one, and which he again carried out successfully, is found in the mega backup battery that built in just 100 days in Australia.
Elon Musk promised to manufacture a gigantic battery as a backup before courteous supply in Australia, in just 100 days or I would not charge for it. Obviously, given the urgency of this project, the authorities gave their approval to the challenge, a challenge that Elon met days before the scheduled date.
This battery has already begun to demonstrate what we all knew, when Elon Musk is not a ghost and that everything he builds works like a charm. According to the Australian Energy Minister, the investment they made with the challenge posed by Elon Musk has already proven its worth by coming online shortly after the coal plant that supplies electricity to much of South Australia will cease. of it works, up and running in as little as 140 milloseconds and offering a power of 100 megawatts.
The project of creating a battery that was capable of supplying almost instantaneous energy in the event of a power outage, arose from the blackout that occurred in 2016 which had a great impact on both the safety and well-being of citizens. The problem that the country had was that under normal conditions, in the face of a power outage, the average time to be able to offer energy again from other plants is between 30 minutes and an hour. It has once been proven that the one who knows the most about large capacity batteries today in the world is Elon Musk's company.