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Ah yes, batteries made from non-renewable resources mined by literal child slaves is the solution to renewables' glaring baseload problems. The only problem is
by 0xy 5y ago
Ah yes, batteries made from non-renewable resources mined by literal child slaves is the solution to renewables' glaring baseload problems.
The only problem is, that makes them non-renewable.
Renewables + gas = not renewable.
Renewables + batteries = not renewable (plus there's the whole child slavery thing that ideologues ignore)
- akimball 5y agoYou're referring to cobalt, presumably, but lithium-ion is being replaced - now - by lithium-phosphate in cars, and base loads will probably use sodium or iron batteries, and none of these use cobalt.