A massive fire has broken out in one of the world's largest battery storage facilities containing tens of thousands of lithium batteries, prompting a mobilisation of firefighters across several counties in California.
The town of Viviez in Aveyron in France has just seen a lithium battery storage and recycling installation erupt in flames, igniting more fears about the dangers of these batteries.
Last week, wind and solar contributed almost nada to Britain's electricity needs and without gas-and coal-powered turbines coming to our aid 1,000s of people would have died. Time to rethink Net Zero, says Chris Morrison.
"Living off-grid has shown me that anyone who thinks modern society can function on a power grid that runs on just solar and wind power without 100% backup capacity for cloudy, still days is totally deluded."
The penny is finally starting to drop. Batteries cannot possibly store the energy needed to keep the lights on when the wind stops blowing and the sun doesn’t shine, the Royal Society has said.
Professor Wade Allison, an eminent mathematician and physicist, has written an eye-popping report for the Global Warming Policy Foundation about the inadequacies of wind power. "Wind power fails on every count," he says.
