Jay Novella
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3,559 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5 Sep
Jay Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But they're in place, and they work, which is fantastic.
Energy storage.
So in 2004, we had very rudimentary and expensive solar installations.
They didn't work that well.
They just didn't.
They weren't there.
They were using lead-acid batteries, limited lifespan, limited capacities, just not good.
Today, we're really doing well.
Lithium-ion battery storage, Tesla's Powerwall, LG's Chem batteries, these systems are massively more efficient, have very long lifespans.
They allow the solar energy to be stored.
You could use the solar energy at any time in those batteries.
You could store them for longer periods of time when you need them.
So this has significantly enhanced the reliability and also the versatility of solar panels because the batteries are the yin-yang with solar panels.
And, you know, like we've said this many times on the show, we need grid storage.
You know, it's great.
All these people are getting solar panels and everything and they have these little batteries in their houses, but we do need some, like, really big, significant grid storage, you know, battery centers that are going to really help load balance and all that stuff.
That's where big money is going to come in and it's going to take a lot of
A lot of time to do that.
The environmental impact.
So the environmental impacts of producing solar panels was a big concern back in 2004, particularly with these energy-intensive processes that they were using back then to manufacture the silicon, and they were using lots of hazardous chemicals and all that stuff.
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