Cargo ships can be electrified with a cheap, heavy, low-performance battery, because carrying heavy things cheaply is the one thing ships are good at.

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• Batteries will replace transmission as the cheapest way to keep the lights on, and the grid will shrink rather than grow. CHCasey Handmer11 Oct 2023energybatteries
• Battery storage is becoming the defining transformative energy technology of the second half of the 2020s, as solar and wind were of the first half. BMBill McKibben13 Aug 2026energybatteries
• Cheap clean energy has broken the old trade-off between raising living standards and cutting environmental harm. CHCasey Handmer11 Oct 2023energybatteries
• Fusion and solar are the two energy sources worth betting on, and solar's limiting problem is batteries and transmission. DHDemis Hassabis23 Jul 2025energybatteries
• High electricity prices are what is killing European industrial competitiveness. HRHannah Ritchie15 May 2025energybatteries

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