Electrons

Or saying it’s illegal to hang up on telemarketers

Especially when helping your parents living in the middle of nowhere.

Seeing them struggle with the changes happening in the last few decades, makes me worry what I’ll be like when i need some young whippersnapper so that I can pay via personal, irrational, conditional thinking.

Like anything with hype, it can funnel money

No I mean the NIMBYism that people present when debating the location of long term storage. What I mean is that the method to create these is not the issue, but rather the public opposition.

Those are not unsolvable problems though, and they stem from political issues rather than the technical problems we still have with the scale of energy storage that we will need with 100% renewable.
And that is not to say that we shouldn’t use renewables, we should just also use nuclear.

That’s not mercenaries though, just comprised of foreign volunteers