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>With sufficiently cheap storage, no transmission is needed. This logic eats its own tail. Yes, if battery storage was cheap a lot of things would be monumenta
by idiotsecant 1y ago
>With sufficiently cheap storage, no transmission is needed.
This logic eats its own tail. Yes, if battery storage was cheap a lot of things would be monumentally better. It isn't. We need today solutions, not hypothetical ones.
- defrost 1y agoProgress marches on: Chemical Process Produces Critical Battery Metals With No Waste https://spectrum.ieee.org/nmc-battery-aspiring-materials https://spectrum.ieee.org/nmc-battery-aspiring-materials Energy storage technology is on a roll, and grid storage isn't limited by weight energy density in the same manner as vehicle batteries are.
- idiotsecant 1y agoThere have been articles like this for decades. Yes, batteries will get incrementally cheaper and incrementally better. They will get better slower than climate change gets worse.
- ben_w 1y agoThe batteries are already cheap enough, per kWh deferred over their lifetimes, to make a huge difference. Like, "97% of the problem can be solved without requiring a single new invention" kind of difference. The current limiting factor is the number of factories making batteries, not the cost per deferred kWh of the batteries they do make.