Energy Department invests $325 million in new batteries that can store surplus renewable energy

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4. Storing energy is a wasteful exercise, as is irrefutably obvious from the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

The popularity of the idea of storing energy when energy remains overwhelmingly produced by ever increasing quantities of dangerous fossil fuels will mark us in history as irredeemable fools.

It's an obscene idea.

So called "renewable energy" is a failure and the fantasy that it produces significant energy justifying energy storage is another example of how wishful thinking is destructive. Storing energy when primary energy is dirty is a very, very, very, very bad idea.

I love the President, but this is bad policy, perhaps popular policy, but bad policy.

We saw concentrations of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide in the planetary atmosphere over 424 ppm this past May, this less than 10 years after we first saw readings over 400 ppm.

We'll see carbon dioxide concentrations next May over 426 ppm, probably around 427 ppm,

History will not forgive us nor should it.