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if by storage you mean batteries, are you sure that their production/usage/recycling makes up for the environmental cost of producing/recycling them?

I am all in for green energy but we have to be honest and estimate well, otherwise we will simply continue as we are now (if not make matters worst)

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A common trope is "this replacement (nuclear/wind/solar) isn't perfect so lets keep building fossil fuels"

Every 1kwh produced by a windmill is 1kwh less of oil being burnt. We don't exactly have an abundance of energy at the moment, there's no excuse not to be diverting vast amounts of planetary resources into renewable production.

I am certain that is the case for batteries. Recycling is always easier than digging up and processing the rocks which contain a few percent by weight of each relevant element, and they're already a net win (with regards to CO2) even if you do that.

> Recycling is always easier than digging up

Easier? Most of stuff that is supposed to be recycled ends up in landfills.

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