[notTooFarGone]

Yeah of course distributed infrastructure is ... Bad???

Oh no we have no single point of failure, empower people to invest into the grid and have huge redundancies in the grid... Batteries literally solve most of the problems

[Paul-Craft]

Don't forget to factor in the possibility of lithium shortages in the next decade. Batteries don't solve anything if you can't build them.

https://themarketbull.com.au/2025/02/07/lithium-remains-a-ke...

[M95D]

It doesn't need to be lithium.

Nickel-Iron batteries are very good for this purpose: practically unlimited charge-discharge cycles and overcharging/overdischarging won't damage them. They should be dirt-cheap too, but almost there are very few manufacturers so there's not much competition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93iron_battery

[ben_w]

Coal and oil also solve nothing when you can't mine it or drill for it… and those who can, refuse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_United_Kingdom_miners%27_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis

[moooo99]

So are we going to ignore Sodium Ion batteries then that are looking to enter mass production?

[Paul-Craft]

Call me when they stop looking.

[bildung]

Here's your wakup call: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/worlds-largest-sodium-io...

[Paul-Craft]

Not even close. This is about global needs.