Both national and regional governments across the world are ramping up plans to meet carbon-neutral goals. With that comes the dogma of wind and solar power but, without batteries and storage, the net zero story remains incomplete. Dr Mike McDonagh compares mechanical and electrochemical technologies and asks if government ambitions without storage are damned before they begin.
It is fairly safe to assume that most of us recognise the urgent need for energy storage, particularly for harnessing renewables. This dictum is readily found on page one of the well-known handbook from the ‘Ministry for the Blindingly Obvious’ (available . . .
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