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by DrScientist 1009 days ago
Yep - lots of work to do.

On the positive side - battery technologies [1] are still improving fast, there is lots that could be done on the energy efficiency side.

While big central powerstations are always going to be needed, I think the future will be more distributed generation and storage than today.

We don't actually have a problem with lack of energy - the problem is capture, storage and distribution.

[1] We need to think beyond just batteries for storage of course.