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Fascinating blog post.

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/05/22/the-solar-industrial-revolution-is-the-biggest-investment-opportunity-in-history/

Help me understand: isn’t solar a dead end? The sun doesn’t always shine, we need to 10,000x our battery capacity to run the world on solar, and we’d be strip mining the Earth for those battery metals. 

Nuclear is the only way. Obsession with solar only furthers oil (see Germany).

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Nuclear is good for base load.

But US has more than enough sunshine.

Other countries, not so much.

But batteries. We are nowhere near the tech for enough capacity, and we’d be significantly strip mining to get to that capacity.

Late to this but there's ways of storing energy like "gravity batteries" that would massively reduce the need for everything being stored in traditional batteries

Late to this but there's ways of storing energy like "gravity batteries" that would massively reduce the need for everything being stored in traditional batteries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_battery
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/01/world/water-battery-switzerland-renewable-energy-climate-scn-hnk-spc-intl