Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Village Global Luminary LP Bill Gates on the limits of battery storage:
"It's not just a 24-hour storage problem. Lithium-ion batteries are now sodium and others will solve your 24-hour problem."
"But you have periods of time like the Midwest gets a cold front where you get 10 or 12 days. All the batteries ever made in history for every car, every computer wouldn't store a day of electricity."
"If you're only using a battery once a year, that's super expensive electricity instead of getting the capital value out 365 times a year, you get it out once."
Village Global Luminary LP Bill Gates on the limits of battery storage:
"It's not just a 24-hour storage problem. Lithium-ion batteries are now sodium and others will solve your 24-hour problem."
"But you have periods of time like the Midwest gets a cold front where you get 10 or 12 days. All the batteries ever made in history for every car, every computer wouldn't store a day of electricity."
"If you're only using a battery once a year, that's super expensive electricity instead of getting the capital value out 365 times a year, you get it out once."
