This chapter explores the vital role of battery technology in optimizing renewable energy sources and enhancing the green energy grid. It examines the current challenges and advancements in battery systems and their potential impact on future energy consumption patterns.
Though we use more renewable energy than ever before, electricity grids need ways to cope with intermittent wind or solar power. Innovations that make batteries to store that energy bigger, cheaper and more efficient can help. Why tourists are flocking to Asia (9:41). And a listener asks how we should talk to our children about AI (16:59).