I really don’t get Vox’s need to sensationalize everything. I hope the US battery storage capacity increases by what we need I guess. But a “holy grail in clean energy” is not tech we’ve had for years is increasingly ramping up capacity, “holy grail in clean energy” would be like the sudden commercial practicality of fusion for energy generation.

Batteries are good and cool, but like, why that headline?

Tl;Dr

Batteries.

https://archive.is/2025.04.21-110453/https://www.vox.com/climate/408381/energy-transition-renewables-grid-scale-energy-storage-giant-batteries

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I still think if we could have car charging stations at work and then go home and plug our cars into our houses to power them at night we could smooth the solar energy demand cycle and have dual-use batteries for transportation and solar storage.