@nanook @fluffy @tard

> I don't believe storage + intermittent will ever be a solution.

Logistically, improvements in storage and transmission technology matter about as much as generation. We wouldn't care about lithium except that lithium ion batteries are currently the best mass-produced storage system we have, and we care about it so much that finding enough lithium in a hill can make a third-world country wealthy (provided they have the domestic infrastructure to dig it up instead of getting bent over by whatever mining company conglomerate).

If we had the cleanest and most abundant power-generation in the world but we got stuck with 1950s battery technology, we'd still be using gasoline for cars. Storage and transmission of energy.

So we have Venezuela.