Electricity is just a form of energy. It was never meant to be stored. For hundred years we have tried finding better and larger batteries. And failed every time. And now with EV revolution of sorts, its like nobody wants to learn a thing.
Energy is best stored in some other form that electricity. Oil. Gas. Wood or Coal. Not heat. Can we store energy as heat. Again the same problem. Heat is just a way to very bad way to transport or store energy.
So why trying out batteries to store electricity. Its massively inefficient. Even more than all the efficiency gains from EV vehicles.
Mining of the battery minerals, even the ones which are no so rare. Copper. Always comes with free Gold. And the process of refinement is horrible at best. We wont account the deaths and disabilities and permanent pollution due to heavy use of cyanides in that mine. And then come to the rate earth. Enough is said. And still seems, no enough to be heard.
Electricity is just 1 form of energy transport. Its not the first and definitely not the last. But we seem to be fond of it so much, we just stopped looking any further. Sure research was done to store even steam. Yeah. We laugh at that. But in 19th century, we all were much wiser. We dump that research and kept looking. Till we found electricity as a even better transport. Please go and find the next one.
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