Every scaling process reaches bottlenecks. Solar panels increased in price in 2021/2022 due to the rising costs of the raw materials and there's no quick fix to

Every scaling process reaches bottlenecks. Solar panels increased in price in 2021/2022 due to the rising costs of the raw materials and there's no quick fix to this fundamental issue. I love your future Utopia. I just don't want to bet my future on all these new experiments coming together and working out perfectly. I think you are front-running every single energy source or technology mentioned. Even pumped hydro, which is a great and old technology- but it had it's first new project in the US approved in 30 years and it remains to be seen when it will actually be built because there are land use issues [1]. The war in Ukraine is creating a crisis of energy security. We need to ask ourselves whether we want to handle the intermittency of renewables by transporting energy all around the world with new experimental techniques or just build some nuclear plants in our own country and avoid all the geopolitics. [1] https://www.energy-storage.news/new-pumped-hydro-around-the-world-tried-and-tested-long-duration-storage-tech-makes-comeback/ https://www.energy-storage.news/new-pumped-hydro-around-the-...