Saturday, November 30, 2019
Because Batteries
John Hinderaker:
I have never seen a coherent explanation of how batteries can be produced and deployed so as to store the vast quantities of electricity needed in the U.S. alone. It would cost a prohibitive $133 billion to buy batteries sufficient to store one state's electricity—Minnesota's—for 24 hours. Minnesota is an average sized state, so that corresponds to around $6.6 trillion for 24 hours storage for the U.S. That is much more than the entire budget of the U.S. government. This assumes that such batteries exist, which they don't.Will a member of the Party of Science please explain how any of this is supposed to work?
Related: Has Nuclear's Time Come?
