US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024

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US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024
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Wait they're still adding natural gas? Geez.

The moment you realize that any clean energy we produce and have been producing for the last 20 years, that the renewable industry boomed exponentially, only serves as additive energy and not as a replacement for non-renewables, because our demands in energy have been exponentially ever-increasing since the 1950s, as the economy doubles in size every 20 years since then. So no matter the remarkable advances in solar and wind, we still needed more energy than that, because that's how exponents work.

But yeah, let's continue doing business as usual, this will definitely work.