> Coal and gas plants are closing because they cannot compete on price with solar/wind + battery storage.
That did not happen anywhere in Europe. New gas plants are being constructed right now, and coal powerplants had to be restarted when Germans dropped nuclear.
> Storage in particular is so early in the cycle that we can expect the cost will drop at least in half. We've barely started making battery storage, the industry has 100x growth ahead.
We need to decarbonize today though. People don't want to pay the high prices, so how does the drop happen?
> And this is without pricing the real costs of using oil & coal & gas like all those people who have asthma (or worse) because they inhale the fumes.
Again, ask Germans about that. Their universal healthcare is going to get expensive soon if they continue on their "green" path.
> Even living in a city (cars) has clear statistical link to increased asthma and other respiratory diseases compared to places with less cars.
Completely orthogonal, people mostly agree on that, but they (where I live) want to charge the electric cars from nuclear energy.