My impression is that this is a PR push, designed to avoid having to invest in renewables, and let them keep on burning gas and coal, rather than something likely to come to fruition.

  • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
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    16 days ago

    You can put up a lot of wind and solar in that time.

    Which needs a stable baseline to counteract lack of supply and/or a lot of lithium. And space.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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      16 days ago

      The existing large-scale batteries are largely lithium. There are a bunch of iron-chemistry ones and sodium-ion ones which have been deployed over the past year, with factories going up to scale them up. I’m not expecting to be limited by lithium availability for stationary batteries.