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The massive battery notion isn't there yet, at all, in my view, from what I can tell.  Stored hydro is a nice concept and will work in certain places, there is one not far from me.   And to store energy, you have to make it first, and with solar you are making it in summer when demand is highest.

Electricity from "renewables" in the US is about the same as from nuclear (counting hydro as the former).  The simple ratios are 20% coal, 20% nuclear, 20% renewable, and 40% NG in very round numbers.  The issues with nuclear are well known, build time, cost overruns, etc.  I have some hope for small modular reactors in time.  maybe.

I tend to doubt another large nuclear power reactor gets built, Vogtle 4 may be the last one.

July 31, 2023. Georgia Power declared today that Plant Vogtle Unit 3 has entered commercial operation and is now serving customers and the State of Georgia.

Maybe someday I hope 

More bombs coming out of Africa.

looks like they are turning north

looks like they are turning north

The spaghetti models the news was showing last evening said otherwise.

The midlatitude warming is causing a decrease in the meridional (south to north) heat transport (atmospheric and oceanic) and contributing to a latitudinal shift in the intertropical convergence zone.  This may be reflected in the meridional circulation modes (PMM, AMM).

Distorted warming in colder drier areas of the north Atlantic disturbs the vertical velocity patterns, leading to the expansion of the Hadley Cell.  Hadley Cells are the low-latitude overturning circulations that have air rising near the equator and air sinking at roughly 30° latitude, with the cells migrating northward and southward with the sun’s annual cycle.  Numerous studies have suggested that the sinking branches of Earth’s Hadley circulation and the associated subtropical dry zones have shifted poleward. Current understanding is that most of the recent Northern Hemisphere Hadley Cell widening is consistent with natural variability.
The strong warming in midlatitude oceans seen in summer 2023, partially in response to elimination of the ship fuel sulfates, is supporting the expansion northward of the Hadley Cell.  The Hadley Cell expansion is consistent with the Bermuda High being fairly far north this year, with intensified dry air over the subtropical oceans.  Note: El Nino is typically associated with a contraction of the latitudinal extent of the Hadley Cell; that is not what we are seeing this year in the Atlantic.

A recent study has linked a poleward shift of tropical cyclone formation to Hadley Cell expansion.  Another study cites an upper-level weakening of the rising branch of the Hadley circulation in the deep tropics, possibly induced by the increased vertical stability with warmer SSTs, which has likely suppressed the low-latitude tropical cyclone genesis in most ocean basins.

I was near there.