California can't use all its solar power. That's a huge problem. CA's solar plants don't even operate at full capacity

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15. We don't generate very much "clean" energy.

The idea that we need therefore to store it at a thermodyamic penalty is one of the most tragic ideas to float around. It is, in fact, the opposite of good sense.

Combined the solar and wind industry produced, as of 2023 just 16 Exajoules of energy on a planet now consuming 642 Exajoules per year, despite trillions of dollars squandered on them.

The idea that energy storage is a good idea is the intellectual equivalent of the belief during the middle ages that the cure for bubonic plague was to huddle in rat infested churches to pray.