Days before President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office and took actions to stall the transition to clean energy, a disaster unfolded on the other side of the country that may have an outsize effect on the pace of the transition.
A fire broke out last Thursday at the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility in California, one of the largest battery energy storage systems in the world. The fire raged through the weekend, forcing local officials to evacuate nearby homes and close roads.
Battery storage is an essential part of the transition away from fossil fuels. It works in tandem with solar and wind power to provide electricity during periods when the renewable resources aren’t available. But lithium-ion batteries, the most common technology used in storage systems, are flammable. And if they catch fire, it can be difficult to extinguish.
Last week’s fire is the latest and largest of several at the Moss Landing site in recent years, and I expect that it will become the main example opponents of carbon-free electricity use to try to stop battery development in other places.
I stopped reading there.
Drop the attitude and provide sources to back up your claim like I did or quit wasting my time.
see, if you actually EXPLAIN your argument I wouldn’t have to guess. Just as I predicted from the beginning, I have gone through the effort of typing multiple paragraphs to explain something you dismiss without even reading because I interpreted your non-existent argument in a way unacceptable to you.
Fuck ALL the way off with your bullshit double standards.
You: we need to build new nuclear.
Me: It’s too expensive, read this Wikipedia article.
You: pivots to how renewables won’t work, supplying no evidence.
Me: evidence please?
You: another meltdown.
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you: sea lion
you: straw man
you: tone policing
you: asshole
you: everything except engaging in a good-faith conversation