I wrote an essay about the requirement for energy storage last month (https://46bit.com/blog/2012/09/23/why-we-use-fossil-fuels/ https://46bit.com/blog/2012/09/

I wrote an essay about the requirement for energy storage last month (https://46bit.com/blog/2012/09/23/why-we-use-fossil-fuels/ https://46bit.com/blog/2012/09/23/why-we-use-fossil-fuels/). It's interesting to see how interconnected countries struggle without it now, although that's not quite the story here.