batteries were (are) expensive and have been decreasing in cost partially because of electric vehicles investing in batteries earlier than necessary would give money to research that would otherwise be funded by others (a bad idea in capitalism unless you need the research quickly) and loans were cheap.
there are loads of way to store energy that don’t involve batteries. pumped hydro is excellent, for example. but there’s also flywheels, thermal salt, and a dozen other ways.
trust me, if we’d had a visionary in the white house instead of trump, we could have figured out some possible solutions to pursue.
instead we’re gonna waste more than a decade playing fuckaround while china builds thorium reactors, fusion, high speed rail to mongolia etc
batteries were (are) expensive and have been decreasing in cost partially because of electric vehicles investing in batteries earlier than necessary would give money to research that would otherwise be funded by others (a bad idea in capitalism unless you need the research quickly) and loans were cheap.
there are loads of way to store energy that don’t involve batteries. pumped hydro is excellent, for example. but there’s also flywheels, thermal salt, and a dozen other ways.
trust me, if we’d had a visionary in the white house instead of trump, we could have figured out some possible solutions to pursue.
instead we’re gonna waste more than a decade playing fuckaround while china builds thorium reactors, fusion, high speed rail to mongolia etc