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The Cost of Storage for Electricity
The world has batteries enough to store enough electricity for one minute and 15 seconds. By the end of this decade, we'll have to 11 minutes. Even if you had solar and wind, 100%, what happens on days when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing? We're not storing it. For five days, that's 7,000 minutes. So yeah, no, I think it's probably oil. It might be oil. And of course, most industrialized processes, most heating, and of cooling, and this is crucial, all the stuff that actually underpins civilization,. Half the world's population is dependent on fertilizer that's produced with gas, steel, and cement
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