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Statistics would disagree. It is very expensive though, so it should be one of many solutions.
In my opinion should be:
Storage could just be reusing batteries from old EVs to store energy. Already saw some cases of companies actually using the EV itself to store the energy produced from renewables (for some reason I can’t remember it was more profitable to use it like that).
The only issue I foresee with using regular batteries as grid wide storage is cost. Many renewable sources are inherently unstable in output, so one would have to plan for potentially multi day deficits in production.
At least in my country some alternative storage solutions are being planned. One company wants to use excess wind power to produce hydrogen. That hydrogen could then be used to offset potential production deficits.
Otherwise I very much agree with your list.
That seems to be a good idea. There are more efficient hydrogen production methods in the works as far as I know so it would help to have more innovation in that field, specially with the production and the storage. If we could find a lightweight solution to store hydrogen safely we could probably replace fossil fuels in planes.
My personal dream scenario is one, where renewables and nuclear become such cheap production methods, that electricity is cheap and abundant.
At that point one could just use that energy to synthesize fuel to avoid the hassle that is hydrogen storage.
We need to go carbon negative, not neutral. So, everywhere we can avoid dump CO2 into the atmosphere is good.
This being said, if we could do it from carbon captured CO2…