Rent-seekers would have it that giant lithium-ion batteries are the simple answer to wind and solar’s hopeless intermittency, but that notion doesn’t stand first contact with the wind and solar industry’s nemesis: arithmetic.
The wishful claim that we’ll all soon be powered by nothing but wind and solar is, of course, utter nonsense. And, as Francis Menton details, big talk about big energy storage systems is just that.
Report On The Status Of The U.S. Energy Storage Project
Manhattan Contrarian
Francis Menton
7 April 2022
As you likely know, on April 22, 2021 the “United States” “set a goal” of reaching “100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035.” You know that because on that date (Earth Day!) President Biden issued a press release so announcing, although the document does not inform us how Biden was able to commit the “United States” to such an ambitious goal by the device of…
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