content: I don't think there's much reason to believe this is the holdup. It's not like you go 100% clean and solar or 100% fossil. The logical thing to do would be to introduce solar to supplement the energy supply and start waning off unclean sources of energy. And at this point batteries are irrelevant. Storage only becomes an issue when you are producing non-continuous clean energy in excess of total demand. And even then that's not entirely an issue. There are solutions like high voltage direct current where you're looking at being able to transport energy at loss rates of around 3.5% per 1,000 km. So storage would only become a real issue at the point that the entire country is already overproducing non-continuous clean energy in excess of demand. I have my own hypothesis on the exact cause that I think more closely matches the information we have available (based around the petrodollar), but for the sake of having one conversation at a time - I'll leave it at that for now.