Battery storage does not raise environmental impact or resource shortages. This is a fabricated story, and holding the industry to a standard that no other indu

Battery storage does not raise environmental impact or resource shortages. This is a fabricated story, and holding the industry to a standard that no other industry has ever been held to. As we electrify our cars and trucks, every house is going to end up with 2-7 days of household electricity requirements parked in their garage. Most models show that that alone should be enough to smooth over the daily variability. Using stationary, cheaper battery chemistries opens up an entirely new world of resources too. Battery + solar is already beating out new nuclear on cost, and we have decades of novel development of the techs to bring down costs even more. Unless nuclear can figure out a way to start dropping in cost by 10% every year, and having shorter capital lifetimes so you're not locked into the high initial cost of today for 60 years, it really will be doomed.