Batteries allow renewable energy to be portable. You’ve been conditioned for (if you’re old enough) six decades to see solar energy as a sh!+storm waste, because of starry-eyed doomsayers telling you it’s the way to go before it was economically feasible. But the price of solar energy has been dropping for decades.
It’s as if someone told you in 1970 that they have the world’s greatest phone-camera-gaming device... except it requires 16 GB of memory.
It’s as if someone told you in 1970 that they have the world’s greatest phone-camera-gaming device... except it requires 16 GB of memory.
Fifty years have come and gone since 1970 and in my area, it's still Natural Gas and Fuel Oil No. 2 that is generating our electricity.
As I said batteries don't make energy. They are just energy storage devices.
And adding to what I said, all those rich suburban Teslas driving around are storing Natural Gas and Fuel Oil No.2 generated energy in their dirty, expensive batteries whilst the rest of us here store our car energy in our cheap and cleaner gas tanks.