Renewable energies are all supposed to be used together to support one another. When its night or cloudy, wind and hydro picks up the slack. When there is no wind, solar and hydro pick it up. When there is a surplus of energy (its sunny and windy out) use it to pump water uphill into a reservoir so that it can be used in hydro another time. Add batteries for more storage to help stabilize the grid when there is high demand until other sources can be activated.
Edit: i was just talking about renewables with this comment. I mention nuclear elsewhere and fully agree we need more of that all working together.
Are these batteries super easy to make and produce? Accounting for the production and mining of all these minerals for the batteries and the solar, is it still better than nuclear?
Here is a neat video to watch about why nuclear is the solution, not renewables, and why one side is preventing it from happening. https://youtu.be/diHish6yC1g?si=_BQNfgBl8fAyTMuL
The answer is yes, a pallet battery is easy to make, with readily available materials, they are large and clunky, but they get the job done. They won’t fit in a Tesla, but for house use they are fine.
Well, not yet profitable, in many places, because the volume isn't there. Almost all the automotive batteries are still in use, and those that are no longer in cars are being reused for stationary storage.
Probably the biggest class of lithium batteries that aren't getting recycled are disposable vapes. Mostly because people don't know that they use high quality lithium rechargable cells.
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u/Ketzer_Jefe Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26
I see the sarcasm but will answer it any way.
Renewable energies are all supposed to be used together to support one another. When its night or cloudy, wind and hydro picks up the slack. When there is no wind, solar and hydro pick it up. When there is a surplus of energy (its sunny and windy out) use it to pump water uphill into a reservoir so that it can be used in hydro another time. Add batteries for more storage to help stabilize the grid when there is high demand until other sources can be activated.
Edit: i was just talking about renewables with this comment. I mention nuclear elsewhere and fully agree we need more of that all working together.