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> Battery storage can scale large ... This is a lie at our current technology levels.

• epistasis 6y ago
  A lie would require that both 1) batteries can't scale, and 2) I know that they can't scale but am knowingly asserting a falsehood. Neither of these are true. We are current at 200-300GWh of production per year, and consistent with recent history are expected to grow capacity 10x every five years, so that by 2031 we will produce 20-30TWh of new batteries per year. That's 500-750GW per year, at a 4 hour duration. In contrast, the idea of scaling nuclear production to 100GW of new capacity per year by 2031 is simply inconceivable. In 2021, with current technology, nuclear simply can not scale as fast as storage, or for that matter solar or wind.