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.
Even batteries and wind have seen some pretty serious cost reduction. It’s looking pretty great for renewables.
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.