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> Even if renewables come to generate the majority of our electricity, they need to be combined with so-called dispatchable power that can be switched on at any
by scythe 6y ago
> Even if renewables come to generate the majority of our electricity, they need to be combined with so-called dispatchable power that can be switched on at any time.
There is plenty of lithium in the oceans — among other places — and no shortage of iron or phosphorus (ignoring agricultural use of P which is much larger), so that it is realistic to store weeks or months of energy in LiFePO4 batteries, even at a global scale. What we lack here is investment.