I imagine I’m mixing electrical concepts, but IIRC Thomas Edison wanted enormous batteries on every city block — that’s how you get that all-important DC power into people’s homes.
George Westinghouse (and Tesla) instead proposed the idea of Power Stations and long transmission lines to deliver AC power to people.
But I guess we’re back to big batteries.
DC has huge power losses at short distances.....................
...you didn’t read the fine article, my FRiend! ;-)
It isn’t really a true battery at all, it is a tiny, tiny nuclear powered electrical generator: one that fits into the size of a regular shipping/truck container.
From the article:
“This nuclear battery concept is really a different thing because of the physical scale of these machines—about 10 megawatts. It’s so small that the whole POWER PLANT is actually built in a factory and fits within a standard container. The idea is to fit the whole power plant, which comprises a microreactor and a turbine that converts the heat to electricity, into the container.”
(emphasis uppercase added)