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Clearly they only think bigger, better batteries are magic and physics defying. The batteries we have now are the best batteries that physics allows for, and they can't be made more or bigger because... We already used up all the stuff for them. Yeah, that tracks.
The classic capitalist solution "make it bigger, make more of it, there are absolutely zero limits."
Quick question, how big would a battery have to be to power a single city of >1000000 for a single day, show your work.
"Battery" does not mean "chemical battery". Gravity batteries, for example, already do provide power to midsized population centers around the world-- they're called hydroelectric dams.
Sorry, but you are wrong, battery means exactly chemical battery
Gravity electrical storage is not a battery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_battery?wprov=sfla1
You linked the Wikipedia page on electric batteries. Of course it's going to talk about the things you put in your remote, because Wikipedia is not a dictionary and that's what most people mean when they say "battery". See also, the pages on energy storage that refer to them as batteries:
You could also look at the Wikipedia disambiguation page for "battery", found at
/wiki/Battery, which mentions electrochemical batteries as the most common meaning and then has an entire section on energy storage that mentions "Energy storage, including batteries that are not electrochemical".You are wrong.