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It doesn't need to be lithium.

Nickel-Iron batteries are very good for this purpose: practically unlimited charge-discharge cycles and overcharging/overdischarging won't damage them. They should be dirt-cheap too, but almost there are very few manufacturers so there's not much competition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93iron_battery

Coal and oil also solve nothing when you can't mine it or drill for it… and those who can, refuse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_United_Kingdom_miners%27_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis

So are we going to ignore Sodium Ion batteries then that are looking to enter mass production?

Call me when they stop looking.

Here's your wakup call: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/worlds-largest-sodium-io...

Not even close. This is about global needs.