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Norway inaugurates Europe’s first LFP gigafactory (www.pv-magazine.com)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Is gigafactory just like a word we have to live with existing now?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It’s basically the gigachad of the factory world.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

"annual capacity of 1 GWh"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s going to be confusing when we get to terafactories and then petafactories. One pumping out Halloween joy and the other filled with llamas and stuff.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He names things like I named my 90s teenage AIM accounts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who? Norway?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Elon. Tesla came up with the name of these things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

But it's called a gigafactory because it produces 1 GWh.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also it's 1000x bigger than a mega factory. We know this because if it was 1024x bigger, it would be a gibifactory.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hmm, so a regular factory is 1/10^9^ the size of a gigafactory? The one in Texas is 10M ft^2, so a regular factory would be 0.01 ft^2^, 1.44 in^2^, or 9.29cm^2^. Seems legit.