If We Go To Hydrogen Production On The Scale That I Envision

We won't have to worry about having only batteries to store power in. We will also be able to store power as a cryogenic liquid.

There is also hope in not only further technological development in battery tech, but also in using graphene supercapacitors as well. And certainly, having another incentive to utilize the carbon we begin pulling out of the atmosphere, in ever greater increments of throughput capacity, wouldn't hurt either.

I can say we would have these "greater increments of throughput capacity," as well as the grand scale of hydrogen production I envision, because we will have realized that a money economy is in no way prepared to deal with what it will take to accomplish these tasks. And in that realization we will come to recognize that only a comprehensively new way to operate will allow us to organize the major, national, mobilization of combined effort this will take. A mobilization on the same level of criticality as was demonstrated when we last fought a global conflict, and on more than one major front, back in the forties.

That is the only way we will be able to save ourselves, as well as the rest of humanity. And as impossible, or, outlandishly unlikely as it might sound, I still remain resolutely hopeful that we will do this as a Nation.

A FAULT WITH THE BATTERY
The $2.5 Trillion Reason We Can't Rely On Batteries To Clean Up The Grid

MIT Technology Review Energy

Fluctuating solar and wind power require lots of energy storage, and lithium-ion batteries seem like the obvious choice — but they are far too expensive to play a major role.

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[Post Note: Of course, if we didn't have centralized, land based (land is too precious now), power production in the first place, we might not need to worry so much about it being so vulnerable. Build huge numbers of sea based, Yen Tornado Turbines (in conjunction with floating habitats), however, and then have the presence of mind to have a truly flexible delivery methodology, as in Hybrid, Dirigible Blimp, Air Trains; you might find yourself with some significant new, viable options, for much more efficient, and clean, energy. J.V.]

A LOT OF LINES TO CROSS

Hacking The Electric Grid Is Damned Hard

6 diggs FiveThirtyEight Technology

Bringing down the grid is a lot harder than just flicking a switch, but the danger is real — and it may never go away.

UP IN THIN AIR

Where Are All The Hydrogen Cars?

5 diggs Popular Mechanics Cars

Using the same underlying chemistry that propels spacecraft, hydrogen cars could still become the car of the future.