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That doesn’t change the fact that battery storage is a business case with exponential growth and is just taking off while nuclear power is expensive, takes long time to plan and build and all the new fancy stuff is still hypothetical and it’s not certain it will ever take off in regard of recent bankruptcy’s in the smr field
True, and if we can make cheap batteries (e.g. sodium based) at scale then it absolutely could become a thing over the next decades. I just don’t want energy transition to hinge on unproven tech. We can’t play around with this, climate change is way too serious.
There is more to consider than simple napkin math. There already isn’t enough lithium mining capacity on the planet to transfer the world to EVs and it is already not keeping up with demand. What do you think will happen if we want to provide back up power for entire countries with batteries? It’s not feasible.
For even more context, the annual growth in electricity output is about 5x the addition of battery capacity.
That doesn’t change the fact that battery storage is a business case with exponential growth and is just taking off while nuclear power is expensive, takes long time to plan and build and all the new fancy stuff is still hypothetical and it’s not certain it will ever take off in regard of recent bankruptcy’s in the smr field
True, and if we can make cheap batteries (e.g. sodium based) at scale then it absolutely could become a thing over the next decades. I just don’t want energy transition to hinge on unproven tech. We can’t play around with this, climate change is way too serious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_energy_storage_system#/media/File:Average-battery-cell-price-b.png
It’s already happening
There is more to consider than simple napkin math. There already isn’t enough lithium mining capacity on the planet to transfer the world to EVs and it is already not keeping up with demand. What do you think will happen if we want to provide back up power for entire countries with batteries? It’s not feasible.