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While you wait decades for home battery storage technology to improve, you can make a water battery in the meantime with a few things from the hardware store.

https://hackaday.com/2021/10/08/power-your-home-with-a-water...



You have to be joking, right? That's a 55 gallons of water as a battery that require 5.5 hours to charge and store 3.9 Wh of energy. Not enough to even power a 10W LED lamp for half an hour. A 10,000 mAh power bank is 37Wh.


You can buy a residential battery today that provides real value. The limitation on batteries is for grid scale supply.


This system only had enough power to run a small light, IIRC.




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