• Current affairs: how batteries will green the grid

  • Sep 5 2024
  • Length: 24 mins
  • Podcast

Current affairs: how batteries will green the grid

  • Summary

  • Though we use more renewable energy than ever before, electricity grids need ways to cope with intermittent wind or solar power. Innovations that make batteries to store that energy bigger, cheaper and more efficient can help. Why tourists are flocking to Asia (9:41). And a listener asks how we should talk to our children about AI (16:59).


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