I don't see how we make the world sustainable without storage. Right now, lithium-ion batteries are the scalable economic solution to that. It's quite pervasive when you really look across all these different products. The bottleneck in getting enough materials to make those batteries and having access to batteries at all is such a scary bottleneck for me.
Batteries are a critical part of the transition away from fossil fuels. From electric vehicles to grid scale storage for wind and solar, demand for batteries is expected to grow 500% by 2030. In order to meet that demand, we’re going to need a lot more batteries. And while companies like JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials are building capacity for recycling, for now that means a lot more mining. How do we build a battery supply chain that meets demand and reduces harm?
This episode is underwritten by ClimateWorks.
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