I already know not going to find any sympathy on this site but the truth is that something that shocks me again and again is how everyone preaches battery storage without thinking about how dirty and polluting the process is to mine the materials and turn them into a finished battery product is.
How can people ignore this end of the lifecycle of lithium ion batteries? Is it just out of sight, out of mind?
Same with the solar panels. To install them at meaningful scale, do people not think about the amount of mining, manufacturing and energy it is going to take to make that many panels?
It seems even more absurd given the limited lifetime of both solutions.
Genuinely curious how proponents of this energy system square all of this.