Environment & Energy

"The piling on of thermodynamic nonsense that storing energy is "green" should be obvious to a first year STEM college student, if not to a high school senior. Storing energy wastes energy. It's a law of physics."

Since renewable energy is clean and free, and does not require mining extraction or waste storage, it's fine to collect a great amount of energy and store some of that energy as needed. There will be some energy loss, but that's okay if the engineering solution accounts for it. This should be obvious to a first year Engineering student.

And the storage solution does not exclusively have to be battery storage. Hydrogen is a better solution for industrial scale use and transportation.

The commenter showed a photo that looks like some kind of mining operation. No mention of the legacy of Uranium mining.