Alexa Devreux-Swift on Nostr: well, pumped storage is only suitable in limited locales, and come with its own ...

well, pumped storage is only suitable in limited locales, and come with its own envirnomental problems.

Battery technology while improving has very substantial issues with significant environmental damage in mining the raw materials, and also in the form of engaging with extremely problematic regimes. The same is true with solar PV.

Also, in terms of thermodynamics, the figures may not add up.

There are no easy answers here. In fact, we may not be able to get out of this energy crisis at all.