@thesolarprincess Both. There's been a sustained disinfo campaign against batteries, AND they have improved significantly. In "conventional" battery tech, you have the rapid replacement of lithium with sodium, which is the 6th most abundant element on Earth. In the unconventional realm, you have ingenious solutions like "gravity batteries" that hoist piles of rocks up a mine shaft when the sun is shining, then lower them at night, driving a turbine.
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@thesolarprincess Both. There's been a sustained disinfo campaign against batteries, AND they have improved significantly. In "conventional" battery tech, you have the rapid replacement of lithium with sodium, which is the 6th most abundant element on Earth. In the unconventional realm, you have ingenious solutions like "gravity batteries" that hoist piles of rocks up a mine shaft when the sun is shining, then lower them at night, driving a turbine.
@thesolarprincess There are enough decommissioned mine shafts - widely dispersed all over the world - to meet all the world's power storage needs several times over, AND mines already have high-voltage grid connections to drive their equipment.
@pluralistic Wow, the mine shaft thing is a game changer honestly, can you give me a source that I can throw at people?
