New type of battery could outlast EVs and still be used for grid energy storage

[NNadir]

13. That I am: Predictable. The laws of thermodynamics are, after all, about prediction. Predictably...

...every single battery on the planet needs something called primary energy to charge it, and 100% of the time, charging takes place with the destruction of exergy, the ability to recover energy as useful work. Batteries are devices that destroy exergy.

This is predictable from the laws of physics, using mathematical physical laws.

If one manufactured a pile of batteries the size of the Matterhorn in Switzerland, without a way to charge them, they're just landfill. In fact, that's what batteries become after a time in use, landfill.

Why, this obvious thing is hard to grasp by any person pontificating on the subject of energy, making uneducated and absurd claims that one is competent to judge issues in energy, is about the only thing that's mysterious in any of this.

Dunning-Kruger, I guess.