What Bill McKibben thinks about batteries

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Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989 and founded 350.org and Third Act.

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1. 7 Sept 2026

   Our readingRapidly building out cheap solar, wind and battery capacity is currently the one climate action the world knows how to execute at scale.

   solar

   Their wordsthere is actually one thing we do know how to do, and that is build out lots of cheap solar, wind, and batteries.

   ↗Facts on the groundbillmckibben.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

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3. 13 Aug 2026

   Our readingBattery storage is becoming the defining transformative energy technology of the second half of the 2020s, as solar and wind were of the first half.

   solarenergy

   Their wordsBatteries are the transformative technology for the second half of this decade, as sun and wind were for the first half

   ↗Fun with numbersbillmckibben.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece