The Hidden Energy Crisis Threatening Our Cities #podcast #energy #climatechange #savetheworld

Countries are getting hotter and cooling demands are getting greater. And at peak demand, when the grid is suffering the most, cooling can occupy easily 40%. Saudi Arabia, it can get to 60%. But this is a huge amount of electricity and carbon emissions. In California, there is about 22,000 megawatts of solar production. There is this point that you cannot put more solar because the instability of the frequency will kill you. So you need storage. 98% of the installed storage The current system of storage are lithium-ion batteries, which are very contaminating, have high degradation, and they have safety issues. That's why they are in the Mojave Desert but not inside buildings. So in the Mojave Desert, there is no consumption for— you need to deliver all this electricity into the cities, and the distribution system is collapsing.