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Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries | How we can minimize expensive, ecologically damaging battery storage by changing how we think about energy (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

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[–] huginn@feddit.it 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Culturally this is never gonna happen, obviously.

Especially since it's not necessary.

Energy storage tech is only barely in its infancy since fossil fuel corps have stood on its neck for so long.

It's a really weird take to insist that batteries can't work when we've barely even tried. It's like the 2 year old saying it's impossible because he's been trying to stick the star through the circle hole, and that we should just be happy with stars not being in the box.

Ecologically damaging like lithium is still a case of star in circle hole: we're only just scratching the surface of grid scale energy storage.

[–] greengnu@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Tragically, you might be right about reduction in consumption being a cultural non-starter.

As it would make many things much easier but as you pointed out, advances in battery technology can fill some of that gap.

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