theyre working on battery tech: compressed air, gravity, kinetic (trains with weight up on tracks), in addition to the lithium and improvements on lithium
but yeah either ppl rely on nonrenewables until they arent available, they reduce consumption to renewable level, or improve renewable tech
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I am not saying there aren't technologies. Only commenting on the cost and timeline of implementation. Batteries can definitely be implemented, but if done in an economically practical way, take about 50 years. I did take into account that Lithium might be replaced - production lines for LiIon batteries are efficient and optimized over past 30 years, they would be scrapped and new tech would need similar time for efficient, mature production lines.
I am not sure about compressed air on large scales, but gravity is being used to pump water to high reservoirs. Again, all these tech are available. But the scale of implementing on a national/global scale requires planning for at least 50 years. Countries planning to do it by 2035, will bankrupt their citizenry with crazy taxes and prices, resulting in the Green politicians losing elections. Germany already has the highest energy prices, which have multiplied every year.
squashkin@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Your comment made me think of something different, I wonder how much regulations and taxes prevent people from having more money they could put in to renewables - essentially a free-market environmentalism question
how much are non-renewables necessary because of the cost of regulations... I suppose the question doesn't have a definitive answer as we don't know how much tech would develop without such regulations, although you might be able to estimate losses due to current taxes / regs and what could be spent on current tech
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Yes, I 100% agree with you. Free market guiding the transition to renewable, would be the fastest, most efficient and painless way.
Govt got involved, everything went to hell. In Germany, prices skyrocketed, and even CO2 emissions went up, because Govt botched the transition