Good news for President Trump’s coal miners.
Child miners aged four living a hell on Earth so YOU can drive an electric car: Awful human cost in squalid Congo cobalt mine that Michael Gove didn’t consider in his ‘clean’ energy crusade
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3575533/posts
“50 gigawatt-hours per year (5.7 MW) of battery packs.”
The MISO footprint runs a summer peak of 100,000 MWs. It will take a while for enough battery packs to run the grid a night when there’s no wind.
https://www.misoenergy.org/LMPContourMap/MISO_All.html
https://www.misoenergy.org/MarketsOperations/RealTimeMarketData/Pages/FuelMix.aspx
There is nothing “green” about the battery industry and its waste, from production and from discarded batteries is as bad as any industry has produced. Then you have the issue of where are all these gigawatts of power going to come from to recharge these batteries and for sure its not going to be from wind and solar.