How big is a soccer field?
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2026
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"2 atom bombs, 6 elephants, and 74 gallons Farenheit. Just, anything but that alien metric system."
because we metric users are eeeeevil
Between 4000 and 11000 square meters
That's an estimate, I guess? Well, it's still a better definition
FIFA standard
Aaaah corrupt ones.
And how deep is a soccer field?
Do you really mean to learn?
Cause we're living in a world of fools, breaking us down. When they all should let us be.
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Wow, that's almost 10% of a single datacenter
Fuck these incompetent headline writers who cant use units correctly. At this point they are doing this shit on purpose to ragebait people into reading the article. And they dont even explain what that headline is supposed to mean in the article. Does the output power ramp up that fast or do they mean that it can actually just output a lot of energy really fast?
I am also fascinated by the measurement “two soccer fields.” Americans largely play soccer on American football fields, so any American would just say “two football fields.” But everyone else hates calling it “soccer” and prefer to use metric rather than comparisons? This just seems like they chose all their measurements to be maximally irritating.
Yeah, nobody play soccer in Switzerland, they play football, how would they know how big is soccer field?
Calling it two football field would still work. Americans would think brown oblong ball field, everyone else would think black and white orb game. In in all cases they'd be thinking of essentially the same measurement.
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My interpretation is that it can go from no output up to 1.2GW in milliseconds. Do most big batteries take more time to ramp up to high output?
These systems support a latent load so it’s not all at once. Something like this but at a massive scale.
https://www.ti.com/lit/an/slva670a/slva670a.pdf
Very cool engineering.
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Goddammit, they are 0.01 Gigawatt short of time travel. 😋
It says "over 1.2" which means you know what some engineer gave the spec as.
Asked for comments, they kept saying "Rest assured there is no death ray plans"
(/j)
Yeah that's what the large hadron collider is for, everyone knows that.
They already destroyed the world by distorting out timeline when that weasel got into the collider when it was running, just a week before harambe.
able to output 1.2 GW within milliseconds
By exploding?
When I flip the light switch in my room, I drain 6 nuclear reactors.
Yeah, that's a bit too much a bit too fast, isn't it?
1.2GWh within milliseconds would be exploding.
Read the headline again, it only talks about GW not GWh. That means it can output 1.2GWh per hour, but it can ramp up to 1.2GW within milliseconds. And it likely can only keep that output for a very short time, which is exactly what you need to balance the fluctuations of renewable energy production.
They just had the first stone laying ceremony so that explains the new wave of publications on the project.
They are using a Vanadium flow battery by the company Invinity Energy Systems which is British-Canadian.
I'm a little unsure whether it's a good idea to combine this with a datacenter, I hope the datacenter bubble popping won't jeopardize the whole project.
