The Energy Storage Problem
2GreenEnergy megasupporter Cameron Atwood just sent me this from G.K. Surya Prakash (pictured), a chemistry professor at the University of Southern California: “Earth doesn’t have an energy problem. We have an energy storage problem.”
There is no doubt that the advent of cheap energy storage will go a long way to enable the migration from fossil fuels, both by a) facilitating the integration of variable resources, i.e., solar and wind, and b) by eliminating the need for liquid transportation fuels. (more…)
In response to my (admitted off-topic) piece about the 
In the last couple of months, we’ve all learned to our horror that 
There is no dearth of news featuring grim stories about the world’s growing energy problems. These basically focus on the rise in price of electric energy which seems to be rising every year. Reason being, the utilities need to pay more for coal and natural gas, which they use in power generation. 
Those of us who were around in the 1960s remember the revelation that smoking causes cancer—how it mounted slowly year after year, until it became irrefutable. This gradual increase in the evidence was due to the time required to study large populations of people over a period of many years.
For those wishing to understand the current status of the 
Here’s a conversation I’m having on the subject of Germany’s Energiewende that I thought I’d share:
Here’s an article on the 
