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FAQs & Mythbusting

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Myth: A sustainable energy future will require us to embrace austerity and use less energy
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Myth: Switching to clean technologies will be expensive, and the cost of converting to an electrified civilization is more than the cost of maintaining the current system
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Myth: Cloudy days present a real challenge to solar, wind and battery meeting daily global energy demands as weather fluctuates
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Myth: The same amount of energy is needed for a combustion civilization as an electrified civilization
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Myth: Solar, wind and batteries cannot support the entire global population
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Myth: It is impossible to build enough battery storage to power our civilization with clean energy
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Are batteries too expensive to build to meet our global energy demands?
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What is the role of hydrogen in our energy future?
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Myth: It is impossible to have a 100% renewable grid, because it is too inefficient to build solar, wind or battery capacity that we only use for a small fraction of the time
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Will the cost of batteries rise because of supply shortages?
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What is the role of conventional nuclear power in our energy future?
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Can we build batteries fast enough to maintain exponential growth of renewables and EVs?
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Myth: Nickel is a less abundant resource. There is not enough of it to power an electric future
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Myth: There is not enough lithium on earth for a global electric economy reliant on lithium ion batteries
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Does the scarcity of raw materials needed to make lithium-ion batteries mean that we won’t be able to build enough batteries for our energy demands?
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