Giant Tesla battery at Jamestown South Australia.
Rent-seekers would have us believe that battery storage will soon cure wind and solar’s hopeless intermittency, notionally smoothing out the highs and filling in the lows (aka sunset and calm weather).
The only thing wrong with that narrative is the fact that it is an outright lie.
Lithium-ion battery technology is probably as good as it will ever get; the natural limits on storing releasing electricity over time are best explained by the laws of physics, starting with thermodynamics.
However, it’s the law of economics that David Wojick deals with in his piece below.
Astronomical battery cost looms over “renewables”
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David Wojick
15 December 2022
The amount of storage needed to make renewables reliable is so huge that even if the cost dropped fantastically we still could not afford it.
We now know that the battery storage for the entire American grid…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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