Or drive around with a thermal energy isotope decay generator in cars, heavily shielded, and dog help the urban environment if you get into an accident and have a rupture.
I don't think I've ever heard you state what you think should power cars and trucks if it is not batteries. I wrote:
Yes, you can go on at length about the environmental costs of mining the metals needed and the limited lifespan of things like wind turbine blades and nuclear power plants. Yes, it is not completely green, but can you say it not greener than oil burning engines and all their infrastructure?
which you ignored to instead inform us of the news that the world is getting warmer while CO2 is rising.
The increased expenditure on "Grids and Storage" there could easily be the result of increasing electrical grids to extend them into areas that don't have it yet, to upgrade grids to handle greater industrialization and increased consumer use. That's before we get into the demand that crypto mining and AI training/service is placing on grids. It is not only batteries but also water reservoirs, heated thermal reservoirs, gas storage, and various other storage systems. All imperfect and all impossible to be perfect due to the laws of thermodynamics.
But still we must have energy storage. For multiple reasons. A gas tank in an ICE vehicle is energy storage. A home hot water tank is energy storage, for convenience. Both of those leak energy but both have their purposes. Do you have a hot water tank at home?
You have a very low opinion of your readers when you think they are not aware of increasing CO2 and increasing global temperatures. But it seems you have an almost universal low opinion, so I don't feel lonely.
So much easier to post graphs than have a discussion. Better yet, explode eloquently with "Bullshit.".
So here's a graph from your intellectual inferior, myself, noticed on the website. In it we see that investment in storage is only a fraction of grids and thus the "Grids and Storage" part of your chart is almost all Grids. In 2022 it was 21 billlion on storage versus 331 billion on grids. 21 billion is a tiny fraction of the appr 1600 billion invested in 2022 on clean energy.
So I don't think you can prove "3.556 trillion on energy storage". I think you are counting the greatly predominant investment in Grids as Storage. I think you have made an error, but you will undoubtedly find a way to use it to belittle me and your other readers. Again. So be it. Have at it.
See the top chart on this page:
https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/annual-clean-energy-investment-2015-2023 It's the same graph you posted above, but with hover access to figures.
Oh, by the way, you might like to know that CO2 levels are increasing and the world is getting warmer.
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