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What Hannah Ritchie thinks about batteries

@hannah-ritchie · 33 positions · 0 changes of mind

Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes Sustainability by Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of her, and revises in public when they say something she did not expect.

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  1. Our readingCheap clean energy has broken the old trade-off between raising living standards and cutting environmental harm.

    Their wordsThe rapid drop in renewable energy costs in the last decade (alongside huge improvements in battery technologies) has started to break this deadlock.

    ↗Can we break the human development-environment trade-off?sustainabilitybynumbers.com 3rd of 4 in this piece

    energy

    Interesting
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  3. Our readingChinese solar panels and batteries are cheap because of automation and a honed supply chain, not because of cheap labour.

    Their wordsBut, China mainly dominates these markets because it has produced a long-term industrial strategy for these technologies and has honed an optimised, modern supply chain as a result.

    ↗Why are solar panels and batteries from China so cheap?sustainabilitybynumbers.com 2nd of 5 in this piece

    solarChina

    Interesting

  5. Our readingHigh electricity prices are what is killing European industrial competitiveness.

    Their wordsAnother factor that is killing Europe’s competitiveness — not just for batteries but for many industrial products — is the high electricity costs.

    ↗Why are solar panels and batteries from China so cheap?sustainabilitybynumbers.com 3rd of 5 in this piece

    energyEurope

    Interesting