cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16969151
I wasn’t aware just how good the news is on the green energy front until reading this. We still have a tough road in the short/medium term, but we are more or less irreversibly headed in the right direction.
I don’t know about irreversibly, but the remarkable and consistent gains in solar technology especially are extremely exciting.
As soon as one of these prototype next-gen batteries hit, that’s it for fossil fuel.
It’s already not worth it to continue using fossil fuel commercially, but as soon as the next-gen power storage is able to be produced on scale, power plants are changing, phones, computers, cars, everything’s going to change.
I can’t see that being more than a decade out, but even if nexgen battery tech doesn’t hit, the constant improvement on s***** traditional battery tech now is improving rapidly.
It is a very exciting time and energy production and storage.
Yeah, at this point we need a big push on energy storage and transportation. It’s exciting to see headlines that some country just generated 200% of their electrical needs for a week from renewables, but unless you can actually store that energy and move it where it’s needed, it mostly goes to waste
Oh it’s happening.
And with new vehicles like the delfast and aptera and efficiency beingb maximize, it’s such a cool future for EVs.
I’m getting a little more optimistic about liquid air storage.
Fundamentally energy storage doesn’t have to be great if energy is so cheap. If you would lose x amount of energy otherwise only saving 80% or 50% or even 10% isn’t really a problem if the cost is so low.
Right now energy is getting so cheap that these systems are now making more financial sense.
Even batteries and wind have seen some pretty serious cost reduction. It’s looking pretty great for renewables.