Great technology! It’s totally going to solve climate change!
My bet that is sarcasm and people are stupidly downvoting you.
No one seems to get sarcasm on this website.
Yeah we definitely need to figure out a way of implying sarcasm without having to state it specifically. Oh well, we’ll never figure it out
/s
We need to accept a premium for the cleanest and safest baseload generation we have.
You can build a lot of batteries for 35 billion. And those don’t produce waste that you have to store for millennia.
Some modern nuclear reactor models produce less long-term waste than batteries.
Hypothetically. None of those are anywhere near to actually being built.
Lmao and what about battery waste when they’re past their lifespan in 15 years?
At the cost it comes in at, it competes with longer-duration energy storage. Very expensive, and only has value to the extent that it reduces the need to build storage instead.
As far as I could tell, according to the article this delay is caused by the Covid pandemic.