Did you just switch from solar / wind, which is totally workable and cheapest form of energy, to arguing about batteries? Batteries for storage are problematic

Did you just switch from solar / wind, which is totally workable and cheapest form of energy, to arguing about batteries? Batteries for storage are problematic, especially grid scale lithium - globally unfeasible regardless of nuclear. We need to move a lot of consumption onto electric (or direct solar) so we will need to manage the time and location aspects of consumption - easier with nuclear (if you get it built) but not a deal-breaker as argued elsewhere. Technology already exists - least sophisticated one is called a switch. Solar by itself is already rated at 3.7% of world electricity consumption, so your table is .. grid batteries? Yes, unworkable and besides the point. y GW cap % of 30TW 2020 700 2.3 2025 2200 7.3 2030 7000 23 2035 21000 71 2040 65000 210 If we keep the pace of x1.25 year-to-year increase, PV solar achieves global domination by 2040 and Li-ion is considered an archaic technology (at least for grid scale load shifting).