3 ms·
> First it was "batteries will never scale to grid usage" You're inventing a straw man that's easier for you to attack. No goalposts are being moved. My poin
by Manuel_D 6mo ago
> First it was "batteries will never scale to grid usage"
You're inventing a straw man that's easier for you to attack.
No goalposts are being moved. My point was, and still is, that batteries do not presently scale sufficiently to make a predominantly wind and solar grid feasible, and our current projections even a decade out do not see them scale to that point either.
We don't know if some breakthrough in battery chemistry will make it scale. Could such a breakthrough transpire? Sure. But will it happen? We don't know. And thus we should not gamble massive infrastructure spending on the assumption that this breakthrough will happen.
- mpweiher 6mo agoAt this point, nuclear fusion is a safer bet than grid scale battery backup.
- rootusrootus 6mo agoYou should tell that to the companies who are already deploying grid scale batteries.
- Manuel_D 5mo agoWhat are those companies, and how large are those battery deployments?